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\"businesswoman<\/a>are you ready to say yes?
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

by ed mendlowitz<\/i>
\ncall me before you do anything: the art of accounting<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

i certainly have been fortunate in my career to become involved in a wide range of activities including interesting clients, great staff and partners, appearing on television, writing articles and books and presenting speeches. people always ask me what i did to get started. my answer is simple: \u201ci never passed up an opportunity that came my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

more:<\/b> when to say no to pro bono work<\/a> | large clients we landed from quickbooks consulting<\/a> | 26 value-added benefits clients need to know<\/a> | how an out-of-work tax preparer \u2018saved\u2019 our lives<\/a> | i always want to be \u2019the other guy\u2019s accountant\u2019<\/a>
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i have seen many accountants and others pass by \u2013 literally kicking aside \u2013 opportunities immediately in their path, and then they wonder when they will get their \u201cbig break.\u201d what a shame for them.
\n
\na great deal of my success has not been caused by aggressiveness to seek out opportunities, but an aggressiveness to take advantage of what was handed to me. many times i tried and wasn\u2019t able to succeed, only to then have something pop up in front of me. other times i was asked if i could do something i never imagined i would ever be able to do, but i tried it or learned to do it.<\/p>\n

everything has a story. i’ve given examples of large clients we got from our ads for quickbooks consulting, how i saved a company and how i got a referral from an adversary. meeting bill hagaman and our subsequent merger into withumsmith+brown was fortuitous because we went to lunch, even though we had no intentions of merging but kept an open mind (and knew we would get a great lunch at an expensive restaurant). the anecdote about lenny \u201csaving our lives\u201d also happened by accident but depended on a long-term relationship that developed from inviting him to our in-house cpe, and so on.<\/p>\n

the point is opportunities abound all over, but you need to be alert to them and then pounce. carpe diem (seize the day)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

are you ready to say yes?<\/strong>
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