Robin Elliott's (dollarmakers) Blog

“But you see,” said Roark quietly, “I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way p...

Here are Eleven Red Flags to look out for before spending a dime or a minute on a consultant or coach: 1. Is he an employee who retired and now wants to teach entrepreneurs how to run a business? That’s like a tortoise teaching a bird how to fly. Dangerous. 2. Does he want you to sign a six mont...

How much is a car? Is $10,000 expensive? Well, for a wreck with no engine, it’s far too expensive, but for a brand new Porsche, it’s too cheap. We should evaluate cost relative to the  value it generates, shouldn’t we? A character called me tonight – he’d picked up my business card somewhere and...

  Do you see your cashflow being strangled, your competitors going out of business, the economy worsening, and what previously worked so well being taken, gasping and spluttering, to the infirmary? Are you sitting, head-in-the-hands, at the end of your financial tether? There is a solution. And ...

Yup, style eventually loses to substance, just like that Affirmative Action clown who got into the White House with his teleprompters, false promises, outright lies, and hidden agendas – America may never recover from the damage he’s done, but of course it wasn’t his fault. The problem is the lo...

There’s the story of Houdini who swore he would escape from a locked prison cell in seven minutes. He was duly closed into the cell and everyone left, whereupon he removed the key he had hidden in his clothes and proceed to try to unlock the door. Fifteen minutes later, he was exhausted – he sim...

A teacher asked her class the difference between “results” and “consequences.” A bright young girl replied, “Results are what you expect, and consequences are what you get.” Imagine a magician who uses misdirection to fool himself! That would be ridiculous, and yet, when I coach my business owne...

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with a fellow who told me how he once saved a company in Guernsey a small fortune by suggesting they stop charging a penny for people to use their outdoor toilets. What would often seem obvious to most people, this business had been missing for years. ...

We all have 24 hours a day. Billionaires and those who run multiple businesses simultaneously all have the same amount of time that you and I do. They just do different things in their 24 hours. How can we accomplish more than we do now, with time to spare?Leverage. I was referred to the new boo...

Four hundred years ago, a gardener planted a small pine tree in one inch of soil in a shallow dish. He trimmed each root and branch as the tree grew. When he died, his son took up the task, and so on through nineteen generations. Today that tree stands, never having outgrown the original dish, i...