Undercover Boss/ABM

-Ceo of ABM industries
-he went under cover as an employee to see how his business works
-the Two jobs that he tried he couldn't do
-he realize that he had become detatched from his employees
-after 911 they got their workers new jobs and this gave them very loyal employees
-they work very hard

Famous Entrepreneurs

Donald Trump
-went through bankrupcy in the 1990's but made tons of money again
-wanted to become the best of the best
-his father was his mentor
-education was really helpful

Richard Branson
-he is dislexic but that never stopped him from achieving his goals
-has over 400 successful businesses
-you have to work to achieve lots

Herb Kelleher
-started an airline business
-kept all their planes the same size so it would be cheaper to make and everyone would know how how to fly fix and opperate them

Orville Redenbacher
-was the person who made popcorn big
-started out with just a popcorn stand
-it was a hard market but he kept to it
-face the risk and learn from your failures

Howard Shultz
-was the starter of Starbucks
-the original starbucks didn't want to make coffee so he started up his own company
-he eventually made enough money to buy starbucks for 3.8 million dollars

Bill Gates
-founder of Microsoft
-started off just making programs because he love doing it
-droppped out of school to run his own business
-worth $54 Billion
-kept his eyes open for oppertunities


Rockefeller
-quit highschool to work as a book keeper
-created the company standard oil
-when he died he was the richest man in the world
-his lifetime goal was to make $100,000 which he deffinately achieved
-all his companies were very successful
-refined the oil business to make it so there was less waste
-be efficient

Jim Pattison
-grew up in Vacouver
-worked at a car dealership while he was going to college
-eventually bought a dealership for $40,000
-has started up many businesses

Martha Stewart
-became a stock broker while her husband was at school
-her first career was a high end caterer
-loved to work in the kitchen
-she was a woman in a mans business world but she succeeded

Wendy's
-dropped out of school to work
-he was the first person to add a drivethrough to his restaraunts
-treated people with respect
-loved to mentor and loved the food business

Henry Ford
-created the Ford company which was a very successful assembly line
-his mother died but he didn't want to work on the farm so he started working on automotive engines
-his education was very helpful to him
-changed the automotive industry
-Thomas Eddison was his mentor

Ray Kroc
-owner of Mcdonalds
-he did'nt originally start the business
-didn't have any mentors
-wanted to create a place for families to come
-put the customer first
-take risks

Phil Knight
-was the founder of Nike
-wanted to make shoes that were superior for atheletics

Conrad Hilton

-became a friend of presidents
-built a hotel chain from the ground up
-was born in 1887 in new mexico and was the first born
-Hilton learned the value of hard work and deep faith
-he excelled at arithmetic
-worked at his fathers store and lesrned how to deal with customers and how to give the customer a fair deal while still making money
-was one of 8 children
-his father made tons of money from the store
-though his father obgected he became a politician
-he love the thriving social life of politicians
-he set about making his first dream come true
-opened up a bank with the little money he had
-he went to war in france
-loved his time in the army
-he went to texas in 1919
-was adamant about being a banker
-he got turned away from the bank and went to a nearby hotel
-he saw there that the hotel was full to the brim
-he bought his first hotel for $40,000
-it was a smashing success
-bought other small motels
-dig for gold or sqeeze money from wherever he could
-came up with the term minimax
-earning $100,000 a year with all the hotels he owned
-he met a girl in church and they got married
-they had 3 sons
-didn't have much time for home life
-the deppression hit
-he didn't give up and kept working
-he saved the hotel the hilton stayed afloat
-from surviving the depression he got an amazing rock solid reputation
-he was able to use certain events to his advantages
-when people are fearful they will take anything
-he bought the biggest hotel in the world
-his mother died when she was 85
-was a very honorable person
-he was very religeous
-his oldest son died when he was 40
-he died of the age of 91

Melanie Houlker Utopia Academy

-runs the hair department of the school

-the school has 3 sections within it

-their graduates don't have to work at a utopia spa if they don't want to

-to get the job she had to have a hair dressing degree and a degree in design

-she had to get at least a C+ in English to get into college

-was a bit of a problem for her couldn't get a good enough mark

-after high school she went to work at fabric land

-her dad sat down and talked to her and asked her what she wanted to do with her life

-she told him she wanted to do hair design

-he had already set up for her to go to school for hair design

-worked her way through the ten months of schooling in hair design

-had a hard time getting a job but eventually got one at a strip mall

-her first day at work and she didn't get any customers

-second day she only got to cut 2 kids hair

-she made no money so she quit and sent out tons of resumes

-she got a job at great clips

-after 2 weeks she quit that job and went to her instructor at college

-her college instructor made a phone call and got her a job in Coquitlam

-she worked as and apprentice for a world class hair designer

-worked there for a year and decided to quit because she wanted to do her own houses

-but he offered to pay for her gas and said she could live in his basement sweet

-because she worked so hard he was a great reference for her

-didn't leave her job until she actually had another job

-she was the master stylist at the salon green apple in the cottonwood mall

-she saw that utopia academy was hiring and applied there to be a basic instruction

-the people ahead of her eventually quit so she kept moving up

-when she is not in the classroom she is working on improving everything

-she partly works for people who do hair backstage for shows while still running the school

-utopia can give you an education in hair design and fashion

-she has 35 hair dressing students

-they offer student loans through the company

-is one of the only industries where the customer pays you to advertise your business

-the economy barely effects the business

The Persuaders

-advertisments are everywhere now
-there is too much clutter because they are always trying to make their add look better than the other ones
-advertisements make up aot of our world
-went to a party that was actually just an add for a new plane company called song
-they decided to make a new culture about flying
-they realized that there is a big lack in meeting the needs of women on planes
-they got someone who is really good at designing to help them redesign their product and make it more appealing to women
-in their commercial they didn't even put anything about planes in it
-does it go to the heart or the head?
-people want to belong to something
-45000 people went to the saturn factory to see other people who had saturns
-people think that if they buy someting it will fullfill them
-differentiate yourself from others or die
-Superbrands

Post in notes

-was created by a person who had a phd
-was attepmting to make a super glue
-it took him 12years before he prefected it
-they were give 2 hours a day to work on whatever they want
-someone used his glue to hold pieces of paper in hymnals
-people liked the idea of it
-created a machine in his basement to make the notes
-it wouldn't fit through his door so he tore the wall down




URO
-was a surgen
-developed a product for his patients
-product is the uro club
-invented a club that you could urinate in it
-has sold over 3000 and has made over $70 000
-made a deal for $25 000 for 70% of the company

College Inc.

-The College Grand Canyon University was put onto the stock market
-Micheal
-was into drugs but someone read him the bible and he became a christian
-his mentor told him to go back to school
-decided to go buy a university
-he wrote a book on how to run a college
-people are coming back to school to get a better education because the economy is going down
-one of Micheal's friends started up his own colleges and ran them like corporations
-the university could come up with new courses in days
-they designed the courses to the customers
-they went into the stock market and went up tons
-grand canyon was one of the best examples
-40 000 students are now there
-most of the students are doing their classes online
-its 400-500 cr/hr
-some schools have tried to make profit rather than give the people a proper education
-they tried to get the salesman to force students to get recruited
-is thinking about investing in a school that is struggling
-many students have more than 10 000 dollars in loans
-many schools are charging students money they will have a really hard time paying back because of high interest levels
-every american will need a full educational degree in 2020

Shark Tank Pork barrel spice Rub

-Make a barbaque sauce and rub
-think that their company is worth more than it is
-they anticipate over a million dollars of profit
-she called him a pig
-they got 50 000 dollars for 50% of the company
-they are part time on this project
-prepared to invest 100 000 dollars


Mr. Poncho
-worked on it in their appartment
-it holds the ipod and the headphones and keeps them safe and from tangled
-don't have patent on the main part of the product

Uncle Levi

-ask questions of business people
-if you ask questions you avoid making mistakes
-get into the people loving business
-when you really car about people they notice
-make it a priority to take every oppertunity to get people to like you
-make sure you stay humble
-always be prepared to do the lowest part of the job
-find ways to have fun
-make sure you aren't always working spend time having fun because you spend most of your life working
-business needs to have an amount of fun with it
-find a way to let things go
-business is business
-personal is personal
-be ready to be corrected
-it isnt healthy to be angry
-become financially literate
-learn how to work with money
-learn to handle tough times because they will come
-be patient
-live in your margine
-keep your money
-dont try to make money try to do something really good and the money will come
-learn to balance everything in life
-do regular invintory on whether your on the right path



-Know Your "Why" (adversity)
-Imagine your business (10 ways)
-Have a plan
-Be different
-Read biographies (Learn From Others)
-Ask mentors
-Give more than what they expect
-People loving business
-Stay humble
-Create FUN
-Let go...Forgive...Move on
-Financial literacy
-Live within your means
-Take invintories on yourself

Merchants of Cool Marketing to Youth

-Teenagers are one of the biggest markets
-teens run the economy
-they are given alot of guilt money
-75% of teens have a tv in their room
-1 in 3 have a personal computer
-if you dont understand what teens are thinking and feeling then you will lose
-teens go for what is cool
-they look for the 20% of students that will be followed
-sprite decided to make their drink cool
-they were almost just selling that they understood the culture
-they rappidly grew because they understood the culture
-mtv is a very successful in finding out whats cool
-they talk to the kids and find out whats cool and stuff
-

A.I.D.A

What makes our school different? -drumline
-apprenticeship
-sports
-china trip
-mexico
-europe
-theater

1.Triple "S" for Success
2.Successful students Successful school
3.Free to Succeed
4.S isn't a resting spot on the journy
5.We Accomplish More

A Mcdonalds founder Ray Kroc

-mcdonalds is the best known bramd in the world
-was born in chicago in 1902
-every saturday his mother would scrub the kitchen floor
-was happy to help his mother with housework
-was predicted that he would be in the foods service
-began to see the world as one big place to sell things too
-wasnt bound by normal restraints of teenagers
-if he had an idea there was a way to make it happen
-soon realized that baseball wouldnt make money playing baseball
-didnt like school
-quited school in 1919
-was a born salesman
-really good at selling things
-made sure he looked really proffesional
-he sold paper cups for 16 years
-work was everything to him
-learned everything about what was gopod and bad in the food business
-became the multi mixers salesman
-as he approched 50 years old his work slowed down
-flew to california to see the company that kept buying his mixer machines
-the founders of macdonalds started up drive in restaraunts
-after the war people wanted to get things fast and easy
-they closed their small business and and started a new restaraunt that was way faster
-cut serving time down way faster
-got in a big magazine for their restaraunt
-tons of people came to just see the restaraunt
-Ray Kroc came and saw the potential and wanted to sell them multi mixers
-Less is More
-at 52 he first hears about mcdonalds
-signed a contract so he could sell their meathod
-made sure his restaraunt was spottless
-was cleaning the crevices of the mop ringer
-knew that the store had to be perfect to set the standards for the franchieses he was going to sell
-set out to open up 1000 mcdonalds from coast to coast as his goal
-ended his 39 year marriage with his wife to win over another girl but she wouldn't leave her husband
-married another girl after 2 weeks of marriage
-he was successful because he had a formula
-found a new way to have more controll over the employees
-bought out the mcdonald brothers for 2.7 million dollars
-they wouldn't sell him the first macdonalds so he opened a new macdonalds accross the street and put them out of business
-left it to the franchisees to develope new products because they were better at it
-he wasn't a nice guy
-created a mascot for the company called ronald mcdonald in order to get kids to come to mcdonalds
-eventually won over Jone who he wanted marry his whole life
-bought the sandiego padres
-9684 died of heart failure
-was a giant in the food industry

Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad)

-his dad was really poor while his friends rich dad who he spent lots of time with too
-his dad was the head of the school
-he flunked in school twice
-learned tons from his friends dad
-nothing is more important than education
-there are 3 main things for education
1.Scolastic Education
2.Proffessional Education
3.Financial Education
-in the world of 4 types of people in the world of business
Asset: $ into pocket
Liability: $ out of pocket

Education is the most important Investment you can make

Pitching Element Bars

How did he negotiate with the sharks?
-owns an innovative internet business
-lives in chicago
-started a granola bar company
-he says the business is worth 1 milliion dollars but has only made $50,000
-hes saying that they arent just buying the company they are buying into him
-he kept negotiating till he got a fair deal
-he wanted to be kept motivated so he managed to get the deal for a good price to him
-didnt take no for an answer

Money From Almost Nothing

Garage Sale Boys
-sold things that were other peoples and gave them a percentage of the sales
-made $500

Redline Preformance
-bought car parts for cost and then sold them for cheaper than the stores but more than what they bought them for
-made $415

Junked
-went door to door and asked for people stuff they didnt want and sold it
-made $282

Eggzima Eggs
-sold cheap fresh eggs
-made $15


Begin Boating
-winterises boats so they dont freeze up
-spent $30
-made $120

Acrylic Nails
-did peoples nails for cheaper than companys
-made $45

The Gutter Boys
-cleaned peoples gutters
-made $360

Hand Bags
-made and bags for cheap
-made $15.80

Stereo and Computer Work
-installed electronics in cars and fixed and sold computers
-made $1550

Brandon's pickup and delivery
-delivered and picked up prescriptions and other erands
-made $280

Roses for Donation
-went door to door selling roses and gave the money to charity
-Made $144


Baked Food For people
-made and tried to sell food to people
-made $0




What Makes Someone Successful
-hard working
-passionate about what they do
-good at what they do
-good business ideas


I think Illuminight will be the most successful company in the class

Pet Peves

1.Line Ups
2.Traffic
3.Price of food

1.Create ways to keep lines moving faster so there is less delay
2.Either widening the road and/or make it so the traffic is always moving
3.Find ways to make and sell food cheaper

Branding your business

-volvo has recently been bought by a chinese company
-lots of bands will be bought by chinese people
-local brands will start breaking out
-they are going to learn how to make their businesses more emotional


Disney
-talked to steve jobs he told hem to redesign their stores to make them tell you good stuff about the company
-your companies stores must tel the customer something and that they must stand out




What Makes Me Different
-really good hands on skills
-think outside the box
-problem solver

what do i do that adds remarkable?
-i put in exceptionaly good quality work and strive to be the best at everything i do
what do i want to be famous for?
-for running an influencial and powerful business/businesses

Seth Godin -everything is broken

- there is a huge opportunity to fix thing that are unbroken
-if you think its broken it is
-fix things that are broken
-even if its not your job it doesn't mean you can't fix it
-Selfish Jerks
-i am not a fish
-broken on purpose
-just broken

Seth Godin

-for the first 15 years of sliced bread was none
-find a way to get your ideas to spread
-T.V. and mass media used to spread our ideas
-but its not working anymore because people are just ignoring adds
-need to make your product remarkable
-sell to people who are listening
-the riskiest thing you can do is be safe 
-the safe thing to do is be remarkable
-something you make a remark about
-designs rule

My hedgehog concept

Hedgehog Concept: find out what your the best at and make sure your passionate
                               about it and stick to it

anything that requires hands on skills

Home Depot

-Bernie buid anything except for a successful company
-soon learned how very well
-september 1932 his  partner Arthur was born and was 13 years younger
-wanted to become a scientist
-but couldn't afford going to harvard so settled to becoming a pharmacist
-was a co-owner of a pharmacy
-Bernies father died when he was 15
-moved from company to company
-got fired from the company he worked for
-got a call from someone who wanted to start a business with him
-they set up the first home depot in atlantis
-was a slow start but it became super successful
-did not have enough money to stock the entire store
-they used empty containers to make the store look full
-everyone was broke
-trained their employees and paid them well
-the first year they lost almost 1 million dollars
-by the end of the second year they started making profit
-in its first 20 years it grew faster than any other industry including walmart
-they encouraged customers to do large progects
-in 1986 their sales toped $1 billion
-their main competitor was lowes
-hired a new CEO because they need to solve the problems
-became a very successful company

Success Tips

-never stop learning
-never give up
-find out your strenghts and play to them
-never stop after failure
-love what you do
-take risks
-plan carefully
-failure is a key
-jump at oppertuninties
-be a dreamer
-passion
-perserverence
-creativity
-know what you want to do
-be willing to fail
-take advantage of free education
-work hard
-dont do it for the money
-be frugal
-stick to your goals
-dont procrastinate
-learn from your mistakes
-use your network
-use a ledger
-do something you love
-money is just a thing
-have a back-up plan
-dont burn bridges

 

Kevin O'Leary

-is known as the most fiersome of the dragons
-born in a middle class
-parents got divorced then his mom remarried his stepdad helped him become who you are
-worked for someone once and hated no having control of himself
-never worked for someone ever again
-started a softwear company that was eventually worth over 3 billion dollars

Brett Wilson
-has an annually dinner party
-was born in saskatchewan
-went to the university of sakatoon
-sacraficed family for wealth
-he changed this after he overcame prostate cancer
-very smart got into a business the oil business just as it was booming
-likes to donate money
-willing to take a risk

Arnold Schwartzenegger

-some amazing things that arnold accomplished were becoming the champion of the Mr.universe contest 7 years in a row.
-also his successfull acting career. His succese was due to the fact that he was extremly determined.
-had a very good mentor by the name of joe weilder.
-another reason he was succesefull was because he always had a plan B. by always thinking ahead and planning for the futer if one of his plans fail he new that he would always have a plan B.
-was constantly learning and adjusting to the situations he was in.

Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

Do schools kill creativity?
-education is supposed to tech us to deal with the world even though the world is changing every 5 years
-creativity is just as important as literacy
-kids arent frightened of being wrong
-if your not prepared to be wrong then you wont create anything
-we are born artists and grow out of it
-as we grow up we are educated from the waist the head and then to the one side of the brain
-we are educated to become proffessors in a sense
-deggrees arent worth anything
-intellegence is dinamic
-creativity come from different ways of seeing things
-intelligence is distinct
-if all insects would die then all the life on the earth would end within 50 years
-if all humans left the earth animals and life would flourish
 
What can we do to personalize education to meet our needs?
-create classes that help us develope creativity and ways to deal with and be
successful in the world we live in

Sam Walton

-Being Frugle is very important in being financially succssesful
-the owner of Walmart
-sold things cheaper
-it outgrew every other retail dealer
-was an active and inquisitive boy
-attendend several grammar classes
-sold milk after football practice
-his parent fought often
-played almost every sport
-was a natural leader
-worked delivering paper
-got his first job at the jc penny store
-in 1942 he joined the army but didnt pass the physical
-met his future wife while bowling
-were married in 1943
-had their first child in 1944
-made sure he would be very frugle so that he always had money in bank
-in 1945 bought a store for $25000
-had no hesitation in underpricing the competition
-worked around the clock
-finally got the store doing well
-was very willing to learn
-he looked for a new place to start a store
-bought a five and dime store on the corner of the town square
-was very very energetic
-kept looking for new ideas to inprove his company
-decided to allow the customers to fetch their own products
-it allowed him to have fewer workers so he could charge less
-it was a huge success
-in the 1960's sam had the most stores in usa
-changed the name to walmart
-his first walmart store was a huge success
-sam hired a secretary
-in 1969 he had 18 walmarts
-was up before dawn and on the road
-by 1972 he had 32 stores
-he wanted to become the best retailer in the company
-when he lost 1.4 billion dollars he just said its money
-the company wass making over 16 billion dollars a year
-died in 1992 april 5
-was always in the right place at the right time
-was a genius and somewhat lucky

Bad Experiences

We called the store and asked if they had a certain item in stock and when we showed up it was something totally different and when we asked where to find this item they were unhelpfull as to where we could find it.
   -the worker could have tried to be a bit more friendly and understanding and could have tried to help out a bit more


Went to find something in the store and the person i asked didnt know where we could find something because they didnt work in that department.
   -this person should know more info about the place they work at so that they can help out customers better and keep customers happier


The person at the till wouldn't give us the discount unless we spen another 5 dollars when it wouldn't have been a big deal to just to give it to us so we had to get out of line and find something to buy for another $5 and then wait in line again.
   -it would have been way easier if the person just gave us the discount because the company would still make lots of money and it would have saved us time as hassle

Steve Brower

-knows a lot about mortages
-parents were missionaries in nigeria taught teachers to teach
-lived in nigeria for 9 years
-learned how important, lucky and fortunate with what we have
-when he came back to canada he moved all over but stayed in the fraser valley
-took a student painters class in university after a while af learning to become a teacher
-focused on his buisness life because he liked it better
-started up another buisness
-but it failed after 2 years
-decided to become a recruiter
-became one of the top recruiters
-an employer doesnt want you skill
-wants you to be the right person cause anyone can learn how to do something
-learned how to manage people becoming a sales manager
-you have to sell yourself
-wanted to become a mortage broker
-took the lesson while he was still working
-his boss offered him to work at home half the time because he didnt want to travel everyday to work
-but he declined
-he became a mortage broker
-went to every training session he could to learn how to make a deal
-broker: sells a mortage to people through the bank and gets paid by the bank
-helps his clients find the best product out there
-was recommended as top 5 mortage brokers in canada
-factors for getting where you want to be in buisness:
-hard work/ stay positive
-has to be something you love to do
-need to have positive influence
-Dont give up/ mistakes are ok -as soon as you give up your done
-Listen/ care about people
-24 hour time rule
-Technology/ systems    -having the best technoloy pays off in the long run
-customer loyalty
-dont assume that your the best company out there and and that a customer will stay with you
-Learn to sell
-couteous/ try to help everyone
-if you ignore someone they assume you dont care
-Planning
-you have to set goals with high expectation so that you do the best you can do
-Dont procrastinate
-surround yourself with good people
-dont be afraid to hire someone smarter than you
-Family and friends
-Count your blessings
-think about all the good things you have when your having a bad day
-Learn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-take every course you can
-rules can be bent

Bill Gates

-Founder of microsoft
-was a mathematical genius
-very talented
-did really well when he was challenged
-had supportive parents
-became facinated by the computer
-wrote software codes with his friend
-was determined to make his own money
-graduated in 1973
-was always very focused at what he did
-got an opertunity to make codes for the maker of the first mini computer
-made his own software company called microsoft
-sold many computer programs to computer manufacturures
-company was booming
-introduced microsoft windows(similar to macintosh)
-became a billionare in his 30s
-married to melinda
-became the richest man in hte world
-invented internet explorer
-was the worlds best buisness man of the century

Canada's top 100 employers

1. Sierra Systems Group Inc.
-Sierra Systems Group Inc. provides information technology and consulting services for customers in a wide range of industries.
-Computer Systems Design Services
-3 weeks vacation time
-health plan
-tuition
-dissability and life insurance

-career planning services

-flexible work hours

-health benefits for new employees

-in-house training program

-mentoring program

-online training program

-orientation program for new employees

-student employment: summer and co-op

-telecommuting

-casual work place

2. Nintendo of Canada Ltd.

-Nintendo of Canada Ltd. is responsible for the marketing, sales and distribution of Nintendo hardware, accessories and first party games in Canada.

-2.4 weeks vacation
-paid health plan
-tuition paid
-life and dissability insurance

-career planning services
-flexible work hours
-health benefits for new employees
-in-house training program
-mentoring program
-online training program
-telecommuting
-tuition subsidies
-casual workplace atmosphere

3. BC Hydro

-generates and distributes electricity to residents in British Columbia

-3 weeks vacation

-life and disability insurance

-benefit pention plan

-health plan for retirie

-average starting salary: $40,001 to $45,000

-career planning services
-flexible work hours
-formal leadership training
-in-house training program
-mentoring program
-online training program
-orientation program for new employees
-new entry-level positions (last year): 100
-student employment: summer and co-op
-telecommuting
-tuition subsidies
-vacation (after first year): 3 weeks
-casual work atmosphere

Dave Thomas

-Dave thomas lifted himself out of poverty by creating wendy's
-A great american story about hard work
-Born in 1932
-When dave was 5 years old his mother died
-was not yet a teenager but was doing a full time job
-had a dream to have a chain of restaraunts
-quit highschool to work and live
-was willing to work extra
-he joined the army and learned to cook
-were married after a year af meeting laurane
-was a veteran in the food buisness when he was 23
-revolutionized the carry home food
-had 4 children in 6 years
-dave worked for kentucky fried chicken for a while
-sold his restaraunts for millions of dollars
-decided to make old fassioned hambergers
-called it wendys after his daughters nickname
-first day it opened it was a huge success
-his life was work
-in its first 2 years there were over 500 wendys
-never got to have fun as a kid so decided to have fun in his old age
-decided to go with quality over quantity

1. Free resources
2. Travel
3. You can afford to do anything
4. Read and understand all contracts
5. You have the power to changeany situation you are in
6. Learn from your mistakes
7. Use the internet as a resource
8. Use family/friends/assciates as resources
9. V.S.P.
10. Never take no for an answer
11. Pick your passion

Kelly Johnston

-used to go to sardis in 87
-owner of sutton
-e-myth revisited (book)
-master all the arts of buisness
-owns 101 morgtages inc.
-been a realtor since 1997
-start of his entrepreneur career when he was 5
-when he was young he decided he didnt want to worry about money
-never finished a degree
-was on a show called neon rider
-doesnt care about being famous
-money is just a thing
-dont do something for the movie
-he really wanted to open up a coffee shop
-but the bank wouldn't give him a loan
-met somone in vancouver who was opening up a coffee shop
-whatever the mind can concieve and truely believe will happen
-the coffee completely failed after 2 years and he went bankrupt
-he got his realtors liscence
-you will have problems and make mistakes
-we cant do everything ourselves we need help sometimes
-everything has cylces
in busness there will always be ups and downs but you have to try and level it out as much as possible
you cant do it all yourself
evrything cycles
always be ready for the worst
you dont drive a car looking in the rear veiw mirror or you will crash
learn from the past but dont dwell on the past
you get succesefull throught realationships
decide on a goal and go get it
nothign happens without action
fill yourself up
find out what your ruter is
the power of fucos and visulization
if you take an idea and a goal and you keep visulizing it
live life like it should be lived
dont do everything for money
the money will come
success is a jorney
no one is teling you what you are worth
in busness you are worth exactly what you think you are worth
you are your own boss!
focus on the WHAT
the WHY is the biggest thing
bring key people into your cirle seerounf yourself eith good people
you have to be the central enery source
always creatate a WIN WIN situattion
keep your eye on the goal and you wont see the speed bumps
feed the positives

Picking a winner

What i like to do
-all sports: coach, trainer
-make money: stocks
-hanging out with friends: create a company with friends
-sleep: start a mattress company
-video games: invent a new video game, run a video game store

What i'm really good at
-all sports: coach, trainer
-sleep: start a mattress company
-working: work hard an start a succsessful business
-solving problems: find a job where i fix things and/or solve problems
-thinking outside the box: work somewhere i can be creative and develope my own ideas

What market need do i see
-i see a need for finding selling and cleaning golf balls

Money from nothing

Cans for cash
went door to door asking for empty cans
made $39.21

Lawn jobs and Car washes
washed cars and mowed lawn
made $80

Auto expostion advertising
tried to sell cars to put adds on
didnt sell anything

Holy shirts and pants
managed to sell large qualities of clothing
made $184.00 selling 46 articles of clothing

KJA Home and Car Services
offered to clean homes and cars and mow lawns
made $0

Ticket scalping
tried to sell tickets
made $0

Breaktime Childcare
babysat for parents
put out plyers
made $0

Scratch and sniff dog walking
brought in bottles and walked dogs
made $604.59

Errand runners
went to local retirement home to run errands for them
made $0

T and E recycling
went to their parents jobs to get scrap materials and sold it to people
made $128

Green enterprises
fixed computers and sold car audio seystems
made $785

JJF Firewood
went to his dads work and took scrap wood and tried to sell it as firewood
made $0

Young Entrepreneurs

Reinventing the Wheels
-jessica scorpio
-she and 9 others team members were challenged to build a company
that would have a positive effect on 1 billion people
-they decided to focus on energy and the environment
-they then decided to go after the trasportation industry because it hasn't changed in over 50 years
-discovered that the basic model of car ownership is a lot of waste
-developed an all geo-locating hardware device that sits in a vehicle
-it comunicates with smartphones to control access
-named it getaround
-car owners install a $100 device then register it on the network and set their own prices
-owners get to choose who they rent their car to
-renters go on getaround.com and search for nearby cars
-the getaround is hoped to reduce up to 44% of driving and will reduce greenhouse gasses

Google

-hires people who have entrepeneurial mindsets
-in a positon to make a difference in many peoples lives
-no formula
Larry page
-creator of google
-if sombody has an idea the usually are allowed to do what they want and they just see where it goes
-keeps inovative apps
-there is a really fun culture at the company

Larry Page

-creator of google
-if sombody has an idea the usually are allowed to do what they want and they just see where it goes
-keeps inovative apps
-there is a really fun culture at the company

Young Entrepeneurs

TED

even williams (twitter)

started with odeo

launched twitter as a side project for odeo

also launched blogger

many uses for twitter

politicians use twitter

created a twitter search engine

uses shape systems

anyone can add their own programs

Hunks hauling junk Foxes packing boxes

I really like the hunks hauling junk company because they are a more proffesional company than most other companies. They also offer a good price for the work they do.They also have a really good website that allows you too see what they do and to book a junk removal time. One thing i wouldnt be sure about is their quality of work this is because they are such a big company now and that makes it harder to monitor the quality of work.

I think the buisness college foxes packing boxes is not such a great idea because even though they promise good quality the company they already own would be able to expant to do that too. This is a better idea because the hunks hauling junk company is much better known so they would have no problem getting started then.

Facebook

-creates a free thinking/ hangout culture
-Friends
-college adults new scholars harverd students
-effective campaigning
-not a challenge to google
-value is $15 billion
-selling adds
-turned down $1 billion
-his company is worth so much but he still sits in a plain desk in an unspecial desk
-he keeps everyone on an ever playing field
 

The Rockefellers

-wanted to make 100,000 dollars
-kept a ledger of every penny he spent and earned
-was an accountant
-went into oil refining
-not the fortune he made but the fortune he saved
-he lived very simply even though he had tons of money

Open your eyes to Problems

Every problem is an opportunity for a creative solution

-problems... bring 'em on!
-intersection of your skills market need and passion
-willing to fail... makes a resume of failures
-build relationships... for the long-term
-prioiratize (one page buisness plan) and re-evaluate constantly
-teams, make everyone else successful
-the more you give the more you get
-never miss an opportunity to be fabulous do my best work now
-you control your attitude (MBA story... it won't fix your problem)

Guardians are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply -- and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.

Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly -- they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.

Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.

Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population, and a good thing, because they usually end up doing all the indispensable but thankless jobs everyone else takes for granted.

Guardians at Work
As a Guardian, you enjoy working as a valued member of a team, whether you are leading it or following a credible leader. You like to work with people who carry their weight. You appreciate having clear-cut responsibilities and being recognized for your dedication and achievements. Your natural traits are those that employers have traditionally valued - and that successful companies still respect. You are responsible and loyal to an organization once you've signed on.

In any environment, including your work place, you are usually focused on making people happy and facilitating harmonious relationships. You often lend "aid and comfort" by drawing on a combination of tradition, past experience, and the direction of established authority. In your ideal job, people would give of themselves and work toward the good of the group.

Discerning

The ability to assess your surroundings and figure out what to do

Eg. when there is a thunder storm outside you use your dicerning ability to decide whether to go golfing or not.

We need to be able to realise what is going on around us and then we have to decide what to do about it rather than ignoring what is happening

Richard Branson

-the owner of virgin everything

-if you can run one company you can run any company

-life is one long learning process

-took huge risks

-need to have backing to start a buisness

-$25 billion

-25 thousand emploies

-left school when he was 15

1. how you treat others
2. courage: willingness to put yourself at risk
3. value-added experience
4. leap into the unkown
5. willing to serve others
6. calculated risk
-pick on someone bigger than you
-look for companies that lack value for $

EVERYTHING IS NEGOTIABLE

Who am I

These are my main strengths

-adaptability*

-belief

-competition

-focus*

-inclusiveness

-persistent

-positivity

-restorative

-strategic

Facing the Wave

What?- We need to face the challenge

So What?- If we don't face the challenge then we won't get anywhere

Now What?- I need to face whatever problems/challenges I have so i get somewhere in life

Embrace Risk

What?- Balance vs taking a step

So what?- You need to take risks in order to be succsessfull and to get somewhere in life

Now what?- I need to figure out what risk i am going to take