Enforce management training by teaching it yourself. Managing the company is the CEO’s job. While you won’t have time to teach all of the management courses yourself, you should teach the course on management expectations, because they are, after all, your expectations. Make it an honor to participate in these sessions by selecting the best managers on your team to teach the other courses. And make that mandatory, too.

Hard work, discipline, determination and dedication. You have to learn what you do and do well in what you do.

Experience comes from what you do in life, not from what you do in a job. You don’t need a job to get experience.

To be a manager requires more than a title, a big office, and other outward symbols of rank. It requires competence and performance of a high order.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

The first problem is that everybody learns to be a CEO by being a CEO. No training as a manager, general manager, or in any other job actually prepares you to run a company. The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

The main management skills needed for success are: 1) Management of cash flow, 2) Management of systems, and 3) Management of people. And the most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. Communication skills such as writing, speaking, and negotiating are crucial to a life of success. These are skills Robert works on constantly, attending courses or buying educational resources to expand his knowledge. The skills of selling and marketing are difficult for most people, primarily due to their fear of rejection. The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

You don't have to know everything for you to embark on a task; you can take up the role, learn on the job, and seek knowledge, support, and advice from those around you. That is what I did.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you’ve learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON’T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!

The successful managers know that the best way for their people to learn and grow is through experience and that means taking chances and making errors.

I love entrepreneurship because it allows you to apply anything you learn.

At school, you’re told what to learn. At a job, you’re told what to work on, and you only learn until you are good enough to do the job (unless you self-educate out of genuine interest, but being honest, an abysmally low amount of people do that, because those who do realize that in order to learn they must grow, and you can’t grow in someone else’s box).

When you do your own thing, the only way to survive is to do something you’ve never done before, which requires you to learn what can’t be taught in school.

It is difficult to teach anyone what I do. It has to be an inborn thing. The job sometimes requires one to think on their feet as there often no script. One has to understand the concept and the intended results.