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  • Hard Business Truths that Will Help You Succeed
  • Written by: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray
  • Narrated by: Tilman Fertitta
  • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (88 ratings)

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Shut Up and Listen!

Written by: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray
Narrated by: Tilman Fertitta
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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

What the critics say

"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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Not every billionaire should write a book

Honestly this book is short and it still felt like a waste of time. You can tell he’s not an author because he would keep on talking about an experience or a subject waaay past having made his point.

It felt like he was beating a dead horse.

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Most Important Business Book You Will Ever Read Or Listen Too!

Tilman covers the entire gamut from A to Z in a sophisticated clear delivery of the key factors to have a very successful business experience regardless of the industry you are in. These are timeless principles that comprise the realities of life and how we are to conduct ourselves as we navigate the terrain of stewardship and service to humanity. Perfect timing for all who are given the Grace to have access to this crucial information. Tilman is clearly gifted and has found significant favour in his life to get it right when it comes to utilizing time, energy and money in a most beneficial way. Anyone can can benefit from this book from every walk in life. ‘Shut Up And Listen’. Four powerful words for the title that allows an Exodus from the dangerous route of business failures into the land of genuine success by definitively employing every reality laid out in this book. You will listen several times and let it marinate into your being to transform your entire life experience. Powerful upgrade categorically!

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I found the book very informative

you really get to know how he thinks, alot of times we misjudge rich people, he is blunt and to the point I like that about him no time to waste

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He talks the talk and walks the walk.

Hard not to want to listen to such a successful man. They say the average human retains 10% of what they see, hear or read. Tillman serves up some great advice. If you only retain 10% of his advice its worth then time to listen..

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Poor Audio Quality Tales Away from the overall message

Not the best quality recording which made it hard to finish for me. Some good info but mainly stuff we’ve all read somewhere else before. No real new information and not worth the money overall in my opinion.

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insightful,

a lot os simple information that is very useful for people trying to be entrepreneurs. I will listen over again to put each part in practice

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Worth shutting up and listening

Thanks for sharing decades of experience in a few hours I read and anoted in one afternoon
Business wisdom in straight forward vocabulary

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Great audiobook

Great audiobook, I will definitely recommend it and will listen it again and again. Thank you for this great audiobook.

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Must listen as an entrepreneur

An amazing book especially if your trying to build a business. This has opened my eyes in different ways and will help me with building my business.

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Short and sweet

Straight to the point! very easy listen and great advice.
Must read for entrepreneurs I enjoyed it. Thank you

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