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Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Tom Golisano—Billionaire Secrets to Grow Your Business

Good Money with Derrick Kinney

Derrick Kinney

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

5.01.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Do you think about starting your own business? Or do you want to grow the one you have? Billionaire businessman Tom Golisano shares how he started his small payroll processing company and grew it into a multi-billion-dollar empire. He explains how he evaluates new business ventures and why short business plans may catch his eye. If your company isn’t growing, Tom says that people won’t come to you just because you’re there you have to go out and get it!

What you will learn:

  • Have a vision that can bring you success
  • Four things to consider for a business venture
  • Why you should enter with an exit strategy
  • Profitable companies are good for communities
  • When you start your business, you have to market it
  • The impact of the pregnant pause

Quotes:

  • “Another thing I think about for an entrepreneur to be successful is having a vision that could bring him to a point of success.” – Tom Golisano
  • There is an aura of being an entrepreneur that's very exciting. Sometimes you get overexcited about being an entrepreneur and you don't deal with reality in a way that you should.” – Tom Golisano
  • I like the one or two-page business plan that shows a potential investor or a bank how we're going to make money and have it be reasonable and logical.” – Tom Golisano
  • “What you’re doing is you’re grinding down to fundamentals, reviewing the financial statements. I like to call that the report card that doesn’t lie. It tells you exactly where you are right now.” – Derrick Kinney
  • “I think people who sit down and think about it with any sense of reality and rationalization realize entrepreneurs are great for a community, and when they share their profits with the community, it's good for everybody.” – Tom Golisano
  • “When you start your business, you better be able to mentally and physically go out there and build your business through the sales processes, through the marketing processes and so forth. People don’t just come to you because you’re there.” – Tom Golisano
  • “It’s a constant, constant attitude and mentality you need to have in promoting yourself and your business.” – Tom Golisano

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:11.8

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0:14.7

potential and make a difference in the world. That's what every parent wants,

0:18.4

whether their kids are in junior high, high school, college, or they're out of the house.

0:23.0

Listen, I know many of you don't feel equipped to teach your kids how to make money,

0:29.0

how to save money, and how to invest it, but it's just not right for your child to miss out on every opportunity

0:36.4

for success. I want them to become financially independent so they don't end up financially

0:42.0

dependent on you.

0:44.0

Go to good money framework.com now for this valuable free report.

0:49.0

That's good money framework.com.

0:52.0

And now here's the podcast.

0:54.0

Welcome to the Good Money, Good Hands, Good Work Podcast, where we believe money is not bad and good people should have more of it.

1:09.0

Good money in the hands of good people gets good work done.

1:13.0

I'm your host Derek Kenny.

1:15.0

My guest today, Tom Galasano, is a billionaire,

1:19.0

but he wasn't born that way.

1:21.0

He started his payroll processing company with just 3,000 dollars and some credit cards.

1:26.0

As a successful entrepreneur,

1:28.0

Tom understands the fears, the risks and the challenges

1:32.0

that many of you as small business owners face every day because he's lived it.

1:38.0

In our conversation, Tom shares why you should always be promoting yourself and your business so people

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