Terry Beard is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Beard Frame Shops, which he grew from a single store into a 37-location regional chain with hundreds of employees in the Pacific Northwest. He is the author of the new book, Squelched: Succeeding in Business and Life by Finding Your Voice.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Phil Knight founder of Nike
When business started difficulties overcame:
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Favourite Books:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Book by James C. CollinsFavourite Quote:
- “Never never never give up”
- “You cannot have what you want until you can say no to what you don’t want”
Recommended Online Resources:
Attensa – radically reduces the effort required to inform and engage your audience with information that is personally relevant to them
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Go out and find the best people that you can find that have been there, that have done it, people that will give you straight talk, often a lot of younger entrepreneurs think that they really don’t need to talk to people will grey hair but let’s take Bill Gates Jr if you will, his father was the one that was behind the scenes with him and the story goes here that when Bill Gates was putting Microsoft together will Paul Allen Bill Gates father said yes and Steve Balmer will be coming with 19 or 20 of his buddies to get this business going. Get advice from the best people you can find, it’s always about the people”…[Listen for More]
More About Terry Beard:
Squelched: Succeeding in Business and Life by Finding Your Voice http://squelchedbook.com/
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.” E. L. Doctorow
Other Quotes From the Chat with Terry Beard:
- “I really studied the market place”
“I don’t differentiate between work and play because I find that it’s all one life”
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