Richard Knight

I was speaking to a good friend and business colleague recently, and we were talking about the highs and lows of being in business and we all have them. We just hope there are more highs than lows and if you are running your business in the right way, there will be more highs – […]

Are you someone who takes total responsibility for where your business is right now or are you someone who is constantly blaming external situations that are outside of your control? How will blaming somebody else or complaining about how things aren’t going your way benefit you? Blaming others or making excuses is not going to

FAILING TO PLAN IS PLANNING TO FAIL. Having run a small business since 1987, it never ceases to amaze me how few businesses plan anything. Most of us spend more time planning a birthday party or a holiday than we spend planning our own futures. Taking time out to plan the future of your business is

We all have to learn from our own experiences or those whose advice we trust, but there is nothing like experiencing it yourself. Very early on in my business life, I went to visit a prospective client, and was immediately impressed with the cars they drove, the office they had and the fact they seemed

Early on in my business life I had a business partner and when we were meeting up with suppliers for lunch, he would always say that as we were the customer, they should buy us lunch. Do you have this same mentality or do you look at your suppliers as part of your team? Now

Somebody posted something on Facebook recently and I thought that would make a great topic for a business tip, as it totally epitomises my journey in business from conceiving a business in 1987 to selling it and completing the earn out in 2019. Also the quote above is from – in my opinion – the

How can the people we spend time with impact our lives? I am sure that I, along with most if not all the rest of you, were forever told by our parents that “I don’t want you spending time with little Johnny or little Samantha as they are a bad influence on you”. Obviously nothing

Having owned and run a business for close to 33 years, I always find it difficult when people come to a networking event and they tell me it’s the first time they have been – especially if they are an older business owner. I almost want to ask then if they have been hiding under

Over the last 33 years of owning and running a business, if I have ever dealt with anyone who has proven themselves to be unreliable, then I will never do business with them again. I am sure as clients of suppliers or customers of businesses we purchase from, we expect people who supply us products

We have all heard this quote so many times, but probably normally attributed it to a Walt Disney film. So what is a dream? Dreams are something you think about, and sometimes can think about nothing else other than your dream. It is what drives us to do stuff. What is a goal? Goals require