My father told me many times throughout my life:
“you are only as good as your last sale….”
Over the years, I heard this many times…. although I understood the gist of what he was talking about…. as I get older, I understand the point more and more.
Yesterday, I had lunch with Nic and Fabien and we [...]
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Feb
28
the last sale…
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Feb
26
two roads diverged in a wood…
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this entry is in response to Peter Keatings comment/question… “what motivates scott ragsdale…”
Up until the end of my freshman year in University….
I was one of those under achievers that boasted about achieving better than average without studying and not working very hard –I did things “half assed….”
I was always talking about what I was going [...]
Feb
23
and miles to go before I sleep….
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…. although we all want it right now - most of the time success; money; greatness …. none of this comes very quickly
I asked a hypothetical question in one of the most recent blogs … “how many great achievements/successes were lost because people quit right near the very end, when the climb gets the most [...]
Feb
21
if it was easy…
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This blog started off with a quote: “if it was easy……”
….. this thought is the underlying theme of this blog.
I received an email today from one of my closest friends — he does not work for naseba nor does he have anything to do with naseba …. but he was informing me that [...]
Feb
19
ode to the old testament…
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For all the people that asked in the comments section, “who is Edmond Dantes?” …. he is the main character in the book “Conte of Monte Cristo” — which is one of my favorite books. If you do not know this book, I suggest you “google” to learn what it is about.
Last week someone [...]
Feb
19
ode to Liam Findlay and his marketing team….
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We received an interesting comment last week from someone making a clever point…
“Howard Roark would not blog…..so why does Scott Ragsdale blog?”
(the person made a point of mentioning he reads my blog every day because the blog inspires him…so his comment is not an attack)
I replied “instead of asking me why I blog … ask [...]
Feb
17
The Road Not Taken…
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it [...]
Feb
15
instead focusing on the bad….
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There is a sales executive in the Dubai office that has sold at least 16,500 euros or more a week for the past 6 weeks…
Irronically, it took this sales executive 2 months to get his first sale….but since he got his first sale, he has been exceptional.
Today this sales executive came into the office with [...]
Feb
12
ode to competition…
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An old friend emailed me this morning suggesting that yesterday’s entry was “too aggressive” because I am the ceo of naseba…. and ceo’s should not speak so “aggressively.”
I stand by everything I said in yesterday blog….
I understand exactly what my role is as the ceo of naseba … when someone steals from the company and [...]
Feb
11
ode to edmond dantès…
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Nothing motivates me more than “competition.”
I will go as far as to say, whatever success I have achieved in my life is because of my drive to “win.”
In University, an old friend told me when she and I first started to study Japanese …. “you can never learn to speak Japanese fluently….you are not intelligent [...]
