Everyone is always interested in how one can succeed at business. It seems to me that a top 100 list of ways to fail at business may actually be helpful. Here it goes…

1. Don’t create any goals and just wing it. This is sure to mean that you will consistently push off achieving even the slightest of victories and will, ultimately, fail.

2. Put your head in the stars. For all but a few of us, create something realistic and go build it. You want to save the world? Leave that to Mike Huckabee.

3. Pessimism. Be pessimistic about your business, clients, relationships, and achievements, and you’ll be sure to chalk up one failure after another.

4. Play it tight. Don’t think about loosening up to the world around you. Be conservative, pensive, and uptight about what you want to do.

5. Take a vacation. Some of you will say that this is an absolutely necessary ingredient to succeed in business. Wrong! Generally, when you found a business and you take vacation, NOTHING HAPPENS.

6. Don’t keep track of your finances. This is a surefire way to put yourself in a cash crunch, a place you don’t want to be.

7. Don’t speak to your customer! This is egregrious, but people that fail at business love to follow that advice.

8. Spend lots of money on expensive advertising. In today’s world, you may to have spend some money initially, but you need to make your customer your evenagelist. Word of mouth rules.

9. Stop Learning. Make sure that you live you live your life by the osmosis philosophy and don’t ever try to learn anything new. This is a surefire way to mistime and lag the constant market innovation that is needed today.

10. Forget about insurance and backups. Who needs it?

Did I say 100? I think I added an erroneous Zero. Ok, I’ll add one more to the list.

11. Be accurate!

OK, for a real list of 100 Ways to Be a Better Entrepreneur, feel free to click here…