ANYONE CAN BE A BUSINESSMAN!

Anyone can be a businessman...

by Elmer B. Francisco

Business... 

...can anybody go into business?

...is there a specific formula to put up a successful business?

...is it easy?

...do I get a monthly salary?

...what if ...?@!?@!?

...how do I ...?@!?@!?

...so many questions ...so little time!

Being a businessman is a continuous learning process.  Nobody can be the ultimate super businessman who knows everything and cannot learn anything more.  Don't be ashamed if you don't know a thing about business.  Everybody learns something new each and everyday.

Some people say that a Four (4) Year College Business Course, a Masters or a Doctorate Degree in Business is necessary to become a very successful businessman.  While it is true that education is the best medicine for ignorance, education is not exclusively acquired from school alone.  While learning from your own painful and expensive mistakes or experiences are good sources of business knowledge, learning from the mistakes or experiences of other businessmen would be more cost efficient.  While you could get trillions of business knowledge from books, you could get unlimited business knowledge from the internet.  The point is, there are countless of ways to learn about business as long as you have the drive and the will to learn.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you research, you just couldn't seem to get the perfect and the absolute answer to the most simple questions in business.  It is simply because there is NONE! There is no absolute solution to a problem. However, there are countless solutions to a problem that would all give great results.  While there is no perfect result, there would always be the BEST one.  But how could we achieve the BEST result?  I DON'T KNOW!  Only you could know because BEST is a very relative adjective.  It could be the BEST for you but it isn't for your partners and stockholders.  The point is, in everything that you do, you should always set a standard and a goal and make them clear to everyone.  Whenever you reach the standard, that's what you call good enough.  When you reach your goal, that is the BEST.  In business, the BEST result always is the most profitable.

Now, I have Three (3) questions for you:

1.) Are you a businessman?

2.) Are you a successful one?

3.) If not a businessman, would you like to be one?

Whatever your answers to those questions are, I'm sure you also have questions.  Fire it up! ...That is what this blog is for... To provide answers to your questions ...To provide solutions to your business problems ...To ultimately find the BEST answer or solution to your business question or problem.  I will try to contribute to each and every topic in this business blog but I assure you, the collective answers that other blog viewers could contribute would ultimately lead you to your BEST answer or solution.  In this facility, you can get inputs from everyone from every sector of the society meaning unlimited ideas from different backgrounds. 

Anyone can be a businessman ...But only the fearless can be great!