On Tuesday, entrepreneurs will be able to get advice from one of the most successful businessmen in our area. Houston icon Tilman Fertitta’s book -- 'Shut Up and Listen' goes on sale.
For more than 40 years, Fertitta has grown his business into an empire of casinos, hotels, restaurants and the Houston Rockets.
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“One-hundred percent,” he said. “The reason is these guys go back to L.A. They grew up together."
Now, he has a new book called ‘Shut Up and Listen: Hard Business Truths That Will Help You Succeed.”
It's filled with Tilmanisms, like "It is free to be nice, costly to be rude" and what he calls "the 95:5 rule.
“All of us do 95% right,” he said. “Every day, we wake up but it's the 5 percent you look for in the details that separates you from everybody else, and that's what I preach.
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By practicing what he preaches, Fertitta made it onto the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans -- a goal he set decades ago.
But even with that recognition, Fertitta says he’s still hungry… always looking for the next deal.
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