Robert J. LAIKIN

Chairman and CEO of Brightpoint, Inc.

1.	Friends are far more valuable than money.
2.	It takes years to build trust and only seconds to destroy it.
3.	Buy low and sell high.
4.	Learn to separate thought from action.
5.	A person who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person.
6.	Being rich has nothing to do with money.
7.	You can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes. After that, you’d better know something.
8.	Focus on what you have, not what you have lost.
9.	If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.
10.	By the time a man realizes his father was right, he has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

Follow the ten business commandments