Sunday, March 9, 2014

Rich Lawyers Are Businessmen (They Sell Something) By Ojijo Ogillo

(Extracted from Ojijo's Rich Lawyers: Officers of Court & Owners of Businesses. ISBN. 978-9966-123-25-1)

 


A Law Firm is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems. Every successful entrepreneur, every successful business person, is the person who has been able to identify a problem and come up with a solution to it before somebody else did, and got paid for it. In A Law Firm, money is the goal-the goal is to make money-and any action that moves me toward making money is entrepreneurial; and any action that takes me away from making money is non- entrepreneurial. This is the definition of a law firm,

 

‘selling things for profit.’

 

Indeed,

 

‘the only evil thing is a law firm that does not make profit’

 

Rich lawyers are business people. A rich lawyer is hence a business person.

 

A law firm is an activity that involves me selling a product and earning profit. The product can be either a good or service.

 

To the lawyer, ‘law is a lifestyle’.

 

The rich lawyer tells herself:  ‘the money I want is in someone’s pocket, so I need to determine what value I will offer to obtain the money; in other words, ‘what will I sell?’.’

What then differentiates rich lawyers from other people is the ability to identify opportunities.

The ultimate goal of actualizing my idea is to make money while at it. Hence, rich lawyers are amongst the wealthiest persons in the world today. There are eight ways of acquiring money. I can inherit (relations); beg (relations, etc); borrow it (relations, etc); steal it (God forbid); win it (competition); marry into it; sell my skill, effort & time-S.E.T. (Staff, self-employed); or create a money making machine (investment or A Law Firm (big-law firm )).

 

Law Firms, that is, selling legal solutions, is one of the ways of acquiring money. A Law Firm is about making money. A Law Firm is about profit. When I have positive, money making thoughts, I will start thinking like a rich lawyer, I will develop, as Rockefeller said,  the art of finding profitable solutions to problems’.
 
(Ojijo is a ICT lawyer, author of 31 books, performance poet, armature pianist, luo culture expert, business systems consultant, career mentor, public speaker and coach:+256776100059: ojijo@allpublicspakers.com)   



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