Most businesses do not die because the product is bad. They die because the owner needs the sale too much. The customer can feel it, and the customer uses it. These six rules are not suggestions. Break one, and you pay for it. Rule 1: Never send a proposal to...
Most people network like beggars. They show up wanting something, and powerful people can smell it in seconds. The ones who actually break into rooms they weren’t born into do something different — they make themselves useful before they make themselves known. Andrew Carnegie understood this before he had a...
There is a strange dream sitting quietly inside the minds of millions of middle-class professionals. “One day I want to leave my job and start something of my own.” They say it after another horrible commute. They say it after another pointless meeting. They say it when their manager sends...
We are taught a simple formula from childhood: Study well → get good marks → get a good job → earn a good salary → live a successful life. But there is another question nobody asks often enough: What if the child who was never interested in following that formula...
Walk into a five-star hotel in New York, book a private jet in Dubai, reserve a table at a Michelin-star restaurant in Paris, or stay at a luxury resort in the Maldives. Chances are you’ll see someone casually placing an American Express (AMEX) card on the counter. It isn’t just...
The Book That Started A Million Conversations In 1997, Robert Kiyosaki published a slim, chatty book about two father figures — one educated, one streetwise — and what they each taught him about money. Nearly three decades later, Rich Dad Poor Dad has sold over 40 million copies in 51...
Most people spend forty years working hard and retire with almost nothing to show for it. Jim Rohn had a brutally simple explanation for why: they never stopped thinking like employees. Rohn didn’t frame this as a career conversation. He framed it as a philosophy of life. The employee mindset,...
Let’s be honest. An idea in your head is not powerful. A dream in your heart is not special. Potential is not rare. Execution is. Every graveyard is full of people who had “great plans.” Plans to start a business. Plans to write a book. Plans to apologize. Plans to...
A Noida-based professional recently shared a reality check for 9-to-5 employees who blindly jump into side hustles. Hoping to earn extra income, he started an eggs-and-juice stall outside a gym, assuming gym-goers would buy protein and healthy drinks daily. The plan sounded logical, but the business failed due to poor...
The sudden death of C. J. Roy, chairman of Confident Group, has shaken India’s business circles and beyond. A high-profile entrepreneur, a visible symbol of ambition and scale, reportedly died by suicide in his Bengaluru office while official investigations and document inspections were underway. A man associated with confidence, scale,...
