A practising accountant since 1991, Steven Englander has taken his firm Accounts Direct from being a one-man band serving local clients into a national brand serving business owners all over the UK. Steven empowers business owners by taking a 360 degree view, in order to understand what they need to prosper.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Steven’s Dad
- Aristotle
- Socrates
- Tony Robbins
- Stephen Covey
- Zig Ziglar
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I don’t remember a time before it but there’s been plenty of obstacles. And a lot of obstacles are often from your personal life. So getting divorced twice, becoming ill, I had cancer a few years ago, I had to have a kidney removed and it’s all things… The biggest problem I think people really face apart from family and health problems and marriages are being around idiots, employing idiots. I think if you take people aren’t you got to be really careful who you work with because people sabotage through their own ego. And I think getting going in business was fighting that is well. So I found keep quiet about what you’re doing even to the people closest to you because sometimes they are not wishing you as well as you think”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Anthony Robbins Books
- Awaken The Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Life by Tony Robbins
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Stephen Covey Books
Favourite Quote:
“start with the end in mind” Stephen Covey
Recommended Online Resources:
Tony Robbins – the world’s top life and business strategist.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I always assume with an open-ended question that there is a focus, there is a target. And I think if you are starting up in business, starting up a new project you need purpose in it. You need to know why you are doing it and then you need to know where you are going with it. Just make sure that you spend a little time even if it’s only a cash flow projection just so you know where you are going and what resources you will need otherwise you are just going to get swept in the wind. So that’s it just make sure that you know what you want to achieve”…[Listen for More]
More About Steven Englander:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Vince Lombardi ““The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Steven Englander:
- “as soon as you have seen somebody is not really doing their job properly or telling lies or sort of smudging over things or talking in an evasive manner it’s probably best not to have anything to do with them. It’s difficult to see that but as soon you spot it don’t doubt yourself”
- “you can always tell when there is a liar in the room because nothing makes sense but we keep trying to prove that that other person is being deceitful and yet something is not right. So, don’t give anyone the benefit of the doubt. Just move away and get the next person in.”
- “The more you pull in the wrong people the more it affects the culture of the business and it takes your life away from you and it saps your strength”
- “I think it’s clever work, I think it’s work smart. I think work hard I think that’s a little old-fashioned. I think it’s turn up and work smart, do what you are supposed to do, don’t shirk it onto someone else, don’t make excuses, just turn up at work and be at work”
- “if people know that you are going to do the job properly for them and they will trust you”
- “if you have made a mistake go and tell people, just stand by your actions. Don’t let other people take responsibility and don’t lie to people and don’t fob off”
- “know where you want to go, know where this is going to end up because that will give you control over what you are doing and it will give you a guideline to a target of when you are going to end and it will give you a timeline as well”
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