Robert Slattery’s signature process helps people create long term wealth & cash flow. He is on a mission to help 3 million people break free of the rat race by the end of 2030.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Robert’s uncle, Ron Aidan
- Grant Cardone
- Dave Ramsey
- Robert Iger
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when I first started my business, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. And that is quite possibly the most dangerous thing I can think of any business owner or entrepreneur or person in general. If you are running as fast as you can in a specific direction that you just picked arbitrarily but you are in the dark, you are going to trip and fall. And you might trip over something and fall hard. And that is what happened to me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life Book by Grant Cardone
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It Book by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- Click the following link to listen to the Chris Voss podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
- Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! Mass Market Book by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness Book by Dave Ramsey
Also mentioned:
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company Book by Robert Iger
- EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches Book by Dave Ramsey
- Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) Book by Verne Harnish
Favourite Quote:
“iron sharpens iron and one man sharpens another”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Audible – Explore the world’s largest selection of audiobook titles by best selling authors
- Amazon is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“the best advice to an aspiring entrepreneur would be to build your entrepreneurial venture before you rely on it to be your sole income… You need to build the boat before you step off the dock onto it. The folks who are already in their entrepreneurial venture never be willing to rest upon your success. There is always a way to do it better. Figure out how to do it better, invest in yourself, invest in your company, invest in the time and the resources to level up and improve yourself so you can take yourself and your business to the next level ”…[Listen for More]
More About Robert Slattery:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” Simon Sinek
Other Quotes From the Chat with Robert Slattery:
- “I find that every human is flawed and the more you look into people the easier it is to find reasons not to admire or look up to them… I find that my role models change from time to time and it doesn’t mean I think less of these folks. I don’t find myself idolising one person over another.”
- “You are either growing or you are shrinking”
- “the school of hard knocks is inevitable if you want to be an entrepreneur”
- “the best team members, the best employees I have, have found me and they’ve sort me out because they heard about what I’m doing and they heard about my mission and they have come to me and said I honour what you are doing and I can help you grow it in this way”
- “there’s a lot of knowledge that I’ve picked up in little pearls here and there that I’ve gleaned from multiple sources over a career of doing this”
- “I read somewhere you have to have 10,000 hours of doing something to call yourself an expert”
- “if you are looking at any entrepreneurial venture you need to ask yourself why you are going to go through the brain damage and walk through the fire to make that happen… If you don’t have that wire solidified then you are going to get lost because it is your North, it is your guiding light… You got that nailed down you are going to be able to stay the course even when the going gets rough”
- “tenacity… You can’t throw in the towel and you can’t give up. You only lose when you give up”
- “education is invaluable”
- “every interaction in life is a sale. One way or another one person is trying to exert their influence over someone else. On the other person is going to be likewise receptive or try to counter and exert their influence over a situation”
- “there is no one book you need to read to be great you need to read all books and then you need to figure out who you are and what your path is based on what you’ve read”
- “you allow yourself to be coachable and also to coach you will become much better version of yourself”
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