What's The Best Advice You've Ever Gotten???

There are two things in life that I am absolutely sure of; there is a God and I am not him.

From Rudy

What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Luck = preparedness meets opportunity.

Internet Marketing is hard work. Get used to it.

That quote helped me whenever I got down about what I was working on.

This will relate to online marketing:

Whenever you spend your hard earned money on an IM ebook, PUT EVERYTHING YOU LEARN INTO ACTION.

No matter how many times you fail, never give up.

Definitely some of the best advice I ever had was

"If your going to do something for a living be the best at it"

if you can't tell freely tell someone about your success, that person is not your friend.

Don't see what others are doing, see what you can do.

The best advice I've ever read relating to IM is stop reading and start doing. Though of course you do need to know something before you do start. Information paralysis is a baaaad thing.

Never give up.

Stick with it until you get results!

I got the death stare....and then these words came out

1) Build a **beeping** big list of prospects.

2) Take *beeping** action.


Ok, my mentor had a potty mouth!!! LOL, but still the best advice I was given to this day.

Lol this is a quote from a fortune cookie but it had stuck with me and helped me get "un-lazy" real quick...

"Procrastination is the fear of success." - Fortune Cookie

Strive Beyond Greatness.

Jump up and down when you're feeling happy.

Stop planning and start something!

"In the news, you buy the fear and sell the greed" - Warren Buffet

"Whether you think you can or that you can't - you are probably right." Henry Ford

Every cloud has a silver lining.

What It Takes to be Number 1


"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

"There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that's first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don't ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

"Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he's got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That's O.K. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.

"Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization — an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win — to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don't think it is.

"It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That's why they are there — to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules — but to win.

"And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

"I don't say these things because I believe in the "brute" nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious."

- V. Lombardi

The best advice I gotten...?

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

and

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Of the well-know warrior Napoleon Hill

Take Action, take Action take Action. Dreaming is all good and well, but in the end Take Action.

From a Taking Action

James

"Its better to be first than to be better."

When your product is good enough sell it, don't wait until its perfect.

Do hard work and do it for atleast a couple of years.

Save money

luck is when hard work meets opportunity

I was told by a well known marketer that instead of spending money buying courses or IM related products, I will be better off spending that money on driving traffic instead..The best advise I ever received by a long mile.

Practice makes perfect.

You learn from your failures...

Cheers,

~Gary

"Help Others to Solve their Problems"
"You have two eyes and one mouth... Talk less, see more"
"Look for the opportunity in every given scenario you face"
"Other People Dont Pay Your Mortgage For You"
"Be the Best You Can Be in everything you do and Never Have Regret"
"How Would You Feel if You Were On the Other Side"?


Have a great and Awesome Day!

work hard, invest money, don't be affraid of failure

buy low sell high

Someone told me that you are bound to fail at one point. . . Either stand up or stay down, your reaction afterward would define who you are. I keep this in mind as I have encountered a lot of failures and surely I always get up and overcome those obstacles.

Best advice:

"Don't try to cheat people, but add true value to them - and you will succeed"

The future depends on what we do in the present. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be Great at One Thing

be great at one segment of internet marketing and you can teach/sell products

be great in one niche and you can be an authority on the subject driving huge traffic and building a list of dedicated customers

be average in 80 different things and listen to cricket sounds all day in your business

Internet Marketing wise, I will add my two tips:

• Focus your personal efforts on the 20% that shapes the core of your business, and to outsource the other mundane 80%
• To always go back to the basics of IM: Success = targeted traffic + front-end conversion + back-end monetization. All the rest is simply "background noise"

If something is worth doing, then it's worth doing right!
and
Whats for you, won't go by you!

You MUST fail before you can succeed, that way you can learn from your mistakes...Never Give Up

Although very frustrating at times, I guess you have to have persistence with a whole lot of patience.

Stop thinking, start creating

From my father in 1977: "Marry her, son. You don't find ones that that every day."

My father told me that you should never compromise your morals, no matter how badly you want something.

I'm still not sure if this is good advice or not...To me, it seems like in the real world, nice guys finish last and people willing to compromise their morals seem to excel.

However, I follow his advice because I've still got to sleep at night.

Never settle for less than being the world emperor.

OK so my second favorite piece of advice come from a man who did survive the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was old and I was young. I asked him on the day he retired as an exec of a big company. Please give me some of your wisdom to me. He turned and said. "People are evil..."

Well best advice is to

Get up your ass and start to work hard

Here's the trick: The point where most people give up is the point where you need to keep chugging forward

If you do something in a half assed way expect a half assed result.

or to be more politically correct

There is a difference between playing to win and playing not to lose. This is the difference between success and mediocrity.

Wow! A Ton of great responses here.

Thank you all for the inspiration. I hope this thread has benefitted people! Let's keep 'em coming!!

If you are starting in I'M, pick a niche you already know. If you don't know about the niche, you'll need to work twice as hard and spend 3x as much $$ to succeed.