Yo, today's QOD is your success in life will be determined by your ability to solve problems

Here we go.

Welcome back to the Quote of the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com.

We got Brian Tracy back on the show today and he's going to reveal two qualities of successful

superior entrepreneurs. Brian Tracy is coming up.

The seven greats in business I'll give you briefly. First of all, successful companies

have great leadership and leadership is the ability to get results. But it's also the

ability to allocate resources, which means it's the ability to make decisions and to make

hard decisions because if it were easy decisions, everybody would be a leader and everybody

would be rich. So making decisions using thinking, slow thinking, using long term thinking

is the critical job of the leader. Drucker says the first job of the leader is to ask

what results are expected of me. And then I add to that of all the results that are expected

of you as a leader, what is the most important result that you need to get to achieve the

sales and profitability for which you are responsible? One of the rules we learn in business

we never complain about anybody or anything in our business because we're the boss. We're

the ones who decided this. We don't complain about your staff because you hire the person.

If you don't like the person, get rid of them. You don't complain about them. You just

sound like an idiot. It's like picking up food from the buffet down there and saying,

I don't like this food. Well, I never have liked this food. I've always hated this food.

Why did you pick it up? Well, I don't know. The fact is you never complain about something

in your business if you're in charge of it. If you don't like it, change it. If you don't

want to change it, shut up. Now, which allows me to jump forward is one of the marks of

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