{"id":8088,"date":"2011-01-24T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2011-01-24T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T02:30:03","slug":"the-ten-commandments-of-street-smarts-and-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/?p=8088","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Commandments Of Street Smarts [and business]"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Never underestimate the importance of money&#8230; it&#8217;s how business people keep score!<\/li>\n<li>Never overestimate the value of money&#8230; cash is important, but sometimes not as important as respect, thanks, integrity, or the thrill of a job well done.<\/li>\n<li>You can never have too many friends in business&#8230; given a choice always do business with a friend. It&#8217;s the best way to leverage your success.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t be afraid to say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221;&#8230; people will respect you much more and will always place more weight on what you do say&#8230;because they know you&#8217;re right.<\/li>\n<li>Speak less&#8230; No one ever put their foot in their mouth when they were not speaking. Worse, if you are speaking, you can&#8217;t be listening, and we always learn much more from listening.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your promises, the big ones and the little ones&#8230; both the starting point and the staying point in any business relationship is trust&#8230; not suspicion. Someone who does what he says he will do will always succeed over a person who doesn&#8217;t keep his word.<\/li>\n<li>Every transaction has a life of its own&#8230; some need tender loving care, some need to be hurried away.<\/li>\n<li>Commit yourself to quality form day one&#8230; it&#8217;s better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.<\/li>\n<li>Be nice to people&#8230; nice gets nice, and all things being equal, courtesy can be very persuasive.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t hog the credit&#8230; share it. \u00a0People will work with you and for you if they are recognized. They will also work against you if they are not.<br \/>\n~\u00a0Mark H. McCormack<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never underestimate the importance of money&#8230; it&#8217;s how business people keep score! Never overestimate the value of money&#8230; cash is important, but sometimes not as important as respect, thanks, integrity, or the thrill of a job well done. You can never have too many friends in business&#8230; given a choice always do business with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8089,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/8089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesdailyquotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}