Friday, March 07, 2008

Paying Yourself : From Startup and Beyond

Determining your salary is one of the most important decisions you'll make as a business owner.
Read the full article here :
http://www.entrepreneur.com/money/moneymanagement/article80024.html

The biggest mistake most entrepreneurs make is to not pay themselves.

Most would think that they should only take that into consideration when there is profit.

Personally, I have experienced that if you don't do it right from the beginning, you will be putting it off till much later and what this does is, it will soon eat away your enthusiasm for the business.

Why? Simple. It is just not rewarding you to continue to do what you do.

As humans, we are compeled towards action either to avoid pain or gain more pleasure.

And if you are in business for yourself, putting off the payment owed to you to reward your daily efforts will kill your excitement to continually take effective actions for your business.

2 comments:

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Unknown said...

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