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  • Hard Business Truths that Will Help You Succeed
  • By: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray
  • Narrated by: Tilman Fertitta
  • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (96 ratings)

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Publisher's Summary

Shut Up and Listen! is a true leadership roadmap to the summit of career success and satisfaction, featuring concise principles for entrepreneurs and business leaders at any level.

Tilman Fertitta, also known as the Billion Dollar Buyer, started his hospitality empire thirty years ago with just one restaurant. Over the years, he’s stayed true to the principles that helped him build the largest single-shareholder company in America, with over $4 billion in revenue, including hundreds of restaurants (Landry’s Seafood, Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, Morton’s Steakhouse, Mastro’s, Rainforest Café, and over forty more restaurant concepts) and five Golden Nugget Casinos. He’s also sole owner of the NBA’s Houston Rockets. This book shares the key insights that made it all possible.

In Shut Up and Listen!, Fertitta shares straight-talk “Tilmanisms” around six key action items that any entrepreneur can adopt today:

  • Be the Bull
  • No Spare Customers
  • Change, Change, Change
  • Know Your Numbers
  • Follow the 95/5 Rule
  • Take No Out of Your Vocabulary

For aspiring entrepreneurs or people in business, this guide will help you take your company to the next level. When you put this book down, you’ll know what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong to operate your business, and if you’re just getting started, it will help set you up for success.

A groundbreaking, no-holds-barred book, Shut Up and Listen! offers practical, hard-earned wisdom from one of the most successful business owners in the world.

©2019 Tilman Fertitta (P)2019 HarperCollins Leadership

Critic Reviews

"Mr. Fertitta provides great insights to apply to the management of businesses, and people, that span all industries and all cultures." --YAO MING, business executive, former Houston Rocket and NBA All-Star

"Tilman doesn't just understand business—he understands what the customer wants because of his rare ability to see the world through other people's eyes." --MICHAEL MILKEN, Chairman, The Milken Institute

"Tilman offers up compelling lessons on how to build and run a business. If you want to rocket your business to new heights, this is the book for you." --SCOTT KELLY, Capt. US Navy Retired, former NASA astronaut

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great pure business advice thats practical. great job
strong stories to back it up also the advice

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Everything you need to know - highly recommend!

Tilman is a stickler for the detail and anyone who runs a business, is entrepreneurial or in a leadership position managing a time will gain plenty of value from this. It isn’t the most in depth book you could expect, but the relevance and points he makes are definitely there in spades.

Highly recommend!!

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Strong and straight to the point

Tilman Fertitta is a real business Man. I found that within this book there are lots of golden nuggets especially for people who want to start their own business.
His approach to hospitality and any other business is clear and simple to apply. Loved it.

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Down to earth, easy to understand!!!

Easy to follow. A lot of great practical advice. Cuts through all the BS. Excellent reading.

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I’m not sure whether to give this book a four or five star review

He makes it sound so simple. Quite a bit of it seems to be obvious stuff but I really wonder whether succeed in business is actually as easy as he makes it out to be. I suspect not, unless one gets really lucky...

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