Sabado, Oktubre 25, 2014

7 LAWS OF WEALTH : BEN BENSON



7 LAWS OF WEALTH OVERVIEW:


1: GAIN CONTROL

PROMOTE SELF LEADERSHIP & INITIATIVE, REPUTATION, DISTINCTION & POWER WILL RESULT
When you decide to do something great, you must see it to the end. Never shrink from the responsibility of a once-made decision. No life ever grows great until it is controlled, focused and resolute. You must hold yourself accountable to a higher standard than anybody else expects. No excuses. To become outstanding, you must literally stand out. The price of greatness is responsibility.


2: EMBRACE THE FUTURE

DEVELOP A CLEAR OUTCOME, AIM & INTENTIONS, BUT BE DISCERNING & RESPONSIVE IN APPROACH
Your circumstances may be unfavourable, but they can change significantly if you can perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You must endeavour to unveil your innate bounty, by cultivating expertise in your own field while being alert to new ideas from any source of inspiration. Many valuable ideas at first seemed strange and awkward, even impossible, but were ultimately accepted as the best and only way. The longer our imagination retains the new idea, the clearer and more attainable it becomes.


3: OWN A STRATEGY

BEFORE ALL ELSE, BE EQUIPPED, ARMED & READY, MOVE FORWARD WITH CAUTION, VIGILANCE & DISCRETION
The man who enters prepared has his battle half won. He will be rated by his ability to anticipate his problems rather than to stumble upon then as they arise. Engineers can design bridges, calculate stresses and strains, and draw up detailed plans, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge should be built at all. He who plans knows where he is going, how long the journey will take, and when he will arrive. All great accomplishment is won first, through strategy.


4: ALWAYS EXECUTE

BOLDNESS & AUDACITY YIELD RESULTS, BUT BE OBSERVANT & ADAPTIVE IN ATTACK
For successful action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Every noble work is at first impossible. Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by an equal if not greater capacity for action, we are doomed to fail. The inspired ideas of even a superior mind will perish on the rocks of endless contemplation. The thought is the seed, but only action can propagate it. The end of all knowledge should be valiant and bold execution.


5: CREATE VALUE

SERVICE TO THE MANY IS THE KEY TO RICHES; PROFIT TO THE GIVER IS THE CONSEQUENTIAL EFFECT
If you feel that your rewards are unjust, begin your efforts to rectifying the situation by examining the service you are rendering and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it. Great enterprise is built not on deception and manipulation, but on providing goods and services that create more value for customers than what they pay in return. The true measure of a business is not the number of customers it has, but the number of customers it serves.


6: SEEK GROWTH

CHANGE IS ONE THING; INEVITABLE & ASSURED, PROGRESS IS ANOTHER, CULTIVATED & CREATED
To grow and know what one is growing towards – that is the source of all strength and self-confidence. Character is forged by surmounting difficulty while proceeding toward a worthwhile outcome. We must seek to surpass that which we have already mastered if we are ever to progress and prosper. There is no royal road to riches. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows consistently, endures. All life is growth.


7: GIVE BACK

DON’T LET PROSPERITY DESTROY GENEROSITY
He who is not liberal with what he now owns…does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more. If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it may be by what he gives. Revered are those who can give without remembering. Remembered are those who take without forgetting. Examples are few of men ruined by giving. In all you do, Give Back.
SOURCE:http://7laws.net/wordpress/company-info/7-laws/

Miyerkules, Oktubre 22, 2014

Man Behind the KFC

From Young Cook to KFC's Famous Colonel

Kentucky Fried Chicken, pioneered by Colonel Harland Sanders, has grown to become one of the largest quick service food service systems in the world - with more than a billion “finger lickin' good” Kentucky Fried Chicken dinners served annually in more than 80 countries and territories. But success didn't come easily.
In 1896 Harland's father died, forcing his mother to enter the workforce to support the family. At the tender age of six, young Harland was responsible for taking care of his younger siblings and doing much of the family's cooking. A year later he was already a master of several regional dishes. Over the course of the next 30 years, Sanders held jobs ranging from streetcar conductor to insurance salesman, but throughout it all his skill as a cook remained.

The Cook Becomes a Colonel

In 1930, the then 40-year-old Sanders was operating a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, and it was there that he began cooking for hungry travelers who stopped in for gas. He didn't have a restaurant yet, so patrons ate from his own dining table in the station's humble living quarters. It was then that he invented what's called “home meal replacement” – selling complete meals to busy, time-strapped families. He called it, “Sunday Dinner, Seven Days a Week.”
As Sanders' fame grew, Governor Ruby Laffoon made him a Kentucky Colonel in 1935 in recognition of his contributions to the state's cuisine. Within four years, his establishment was listed in Duncan Hines' “Adventures in Good Eating.”
As more people started coming strictly for the food, he moved across the street to increase his capacity. Over the next decade, he perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and the basic cooking technique that is still used today.

The Colonel's Cooking Spreads Worldwide

In 1955, confident of the quality of his fried chicken, the Colonel devoted himself to developing his chicken franchising business. Less than 10 years later, Sanders had more than 600 KFC franchises in the U.S. and Canada, and in 1964 he sold his interest in the U.S. company for $2 million to a group of investors including John Y. Brown Jr. (who later became governor of Kentucky).
Under the new owners, Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation grew rapidly. It went public in 1966, was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1969 and eventually was acquired by PepsiCo, Inc. in 1986. In 1997, PepsiCo, Inc. spun-off of its quick service restaurants – including KFC – into an independent restaurant company, Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. Today, the restaurant company (now YUM! Brands, Inc.), is the world's largest in terms of system units with nearly 37,000 in more than 110 countries and territories.
Until he was fatally stricken with leukemia in 1980 at the age of 90, the Colonel traveled 250,000 miles a year visiting KFC restaurants around the world.

Did you know that Scottish immigrants brought their tradition of deep frying chicken in fat to the southern United States? After that, Colonel Harland Sanders perfected it with his 11 herbs and spices. Since the opening of the first KFC restaurant in 1952 to our newest restaurants in the farthest reaches of Africa, Latin America and Asia, KFC is one of the most loved and fastest growing retail chains in the world with over 18,800 restaurants globally.
KFC now celebrates National Fried Chicken Day, July 6th, as the world’s most popular chicken restaurant chain specializing in freshly prepared fried chicken, hand breaded throughout the day by a certified cook.
Source: http://colonelsanders.com/history_colonelSanders.asp

Linggo, Oktubre 19, 2014

Henry Ford Success Story

Born in 1863 in a small township that's now part of Detroit, Michigan, Henry Ford's early life was spent on a small rural farm. With a farmer for a father and a housewife for a mother, Ford's earliest years were spent surrounded by machinery. Impressed by farm equipment but uninterested in farm work as a career, he began training as a machinist in his late teens at a business in Detroit.
Ford was known as a talented repairman, having assembled and repaired watches during his early childhood years. His talents were soon put to the test as an engineer at the Edison Company, one of the city's pioneering mechanical corporations. He invested heavily in the company's projects, and in his own too, eventually creating the Ford Quadricycle, an invention that would contribute heavily to his later engineering feats designing motorcars.
After a series of investments with the Dodge brothers – a family that would later go on to create its own automobiles – Ford created a racing car. With almost one-hundred horsepower, it was one of the fastest vehicles of its generation, turning heads as well as dominating on the track. Seeing the potential of automobiles, Ford set out to create an inexpensive car for the American 'Everyman.'
Seeing that the consumer-focused automobiles of his day were cumbersome and difficult to drive, Ford set out to create a car that anyone, given a few minutes of explanation, could control. One of his first creations, and one of his greatest successes, was the Model T. Inexpensive yet high quality, it was an immediate hit with the middle class of America, and sold in immense quantities.

To meet such high demand, and to stick with the model's low price point, Ford set out to create an innovative system of production. His production line system was an incredible development in its day, allowing Ford's workers to produce cars much more quickly than before. His company made more cars than all others combined, all the while paying its workers higher wages than competitors.
Ford has, as any automotive enthusiast will know, gone on to become one of the world's biggest and most successful car manufacturers. Many of the innovations that Henry Ford developed are normal within the engineering world today, including the semi-automated production line and higher-than-normal wages for engineers. His contributions to engineering are immense and widely celebrated.
Despite occasional criticisms due to his anti-Semitism and controversial 'social monitoring' tests for employees, Ford remains an icon of the industrial era and one of the business world's most valuable figures. A hard-working, intelligent, and street smart visionary, his long-lasting success proves that a great vision can result in hundreds of years of results.
Source: http://successstory.com/people/henry-ford