In this business it takes time to be really good – and by that time, you’re obsolete.
- Cher

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
- Anonymous

If you are failing to plan,
you are planning to fail.
- Tariq Siddique

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
- George F. Burns

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
- William Wordsworth

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
- Robert Frost

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Corporation – An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
- Harold Geneen

An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
- Stephen R. Covey

Business is a game, the greatest game in the world if you know how to play it.
- Thomas Watson

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service, by the idea that “he profits most who serves best,” and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
- B. F. Harris

You can take my business, burn up my building, but give me my people and I’ll build the business right back again.
- Henry Ford

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
- Thomas Watson

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
- Colin Powell

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
- Isaac Asimov

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles

So I started a blog, intending to 1) write about things I was interested in (i.e. entreprenuership and business – specifically home-based business) and 2) make tons of money from online ads. Did it work? Ummm…not like it did for the guys I named above. But it worked to some degree, nonetheless!

The long story made short is this: I created a business blog and just started writing. Each and every day I wrote a post – for months. For weeks I didn’t even get one single comment. Then later the comments started trickling in. Then I wrote a post about video game marketing that got me on Digg – and I was ranked #1 in Google for that term (“TurboGrafx-16″ if you’re curious).

From that point on I started getting regular visitors to the site, and since then I have averaged about 100 visitors per day. I’ve slacked off the posting (doing a post a week if I’m lucky) but that is in part because I got involved in other income streams and other sites as well as starting a couple of other blogs! I also started a site-ranking service in order to make some money helping others get new sites ranked in the search engines. But visitors still come to my original blog, looking for easy answers to life’s hard situations by reading posts about cash only jobs and being rich.

But, even though I don’t write posts every day for my first blog, I still think of blogging as my business. I make an O.K. income stream from my sites, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.