Shut Up and Listen!

Hard Business Truths that Will Help You Succeed

De: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray

Narrado por: Tilman Fertitta

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

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

Solid advise. Not as in-depth as I would have hoped

Solid advise. Not as in-depth as I would have hoped

Tilman is a genius!! Or should I say ‘a stable genius’!!

I would work for this man just to hear his stories

Great listen (and great read, I bought both formats). No BS business owner who tells it like it is. Will likely listen to it again.

Extremely simple and full of golden nuggets

I really got into the mindset of a true self made billionaire, he goes into his sayings he uses for the business that has helped him trough his successful career definitely one of the best business books I have ever listened to. You won’t be disappointed

Entertaining and practical

I like hearing business stories and lessons directly from the “horses” mouth. Tillman is an inspirational business mogul and has a no BS, simple approach to business and his lessons. Just finished my second listen…

“Mah Restrants”

To the point … great listen. This guys accent is hilarious. This will help anyone who has just started a business.

Excellent, actionable, to-the-point advice

Without wasting your time, Tillman gives countless directives that, if you implement any one of them immediately, will level up your performance as an entrepreneur. As audiobooks go, this is a quick listen and well worth your time.

Humble

He looks at business from not only a customer’s expectations as well as the host and janitors points of view and always focuses on optics and happy employees and customers,

Blunt and to the point!

Great read with simple to follow advice that is immediately actionable for any business! The narrator has a pleasant accent and delivery of Mr. Fertitta's script making it excellent to listen to! A+++!

Must listen!

Shut Up and Listen! is a must listen to book! I would highly recommend it to everyone, whether they’re an entrepreneur or not. Tilman is a business genius who has the incredible ability to share his knowledge and wisdom in a way that is relatable and personable as well as entertaining. He incorporates examples that are applicable to business as well as everyday life. Although my husband read the book (and also loved it!), I recommend the Audible version, so you get the experience of hearing it from Tilman himself! I not only took away so many valuable points from this book, but I also thoroughly enjoyed the listen! Five stars all around! Go download!

Great simple book

I loved his straight to the point no nonsense narrative. The first two chapters are pretty much customer service common sense. But when it gets to the third and fourth chapters it really gets good. Some of it gets a little repetitive, we know from the YouTube interviews that he put 100 million down for the Houston Rockets and the 95/5 rule. He does go into more depth on his philosophy and outlook on business development and watching numbers.

Overall this book should be a requirement for anyone seeking to get into any type of business. I am from Texas too so its like getting that one on one advice from a successful uncle in the family. He does not use over your head terms, nor does he try to dazzle you with the latest buzzwords. Honestly, this work can be timeless in its own way to inspire future generations of entrepreneurs who are starting with nothing like he did. The bokk is not fluff but no nonsense common business sense that would take years to learn. Great listen.