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  • Shut Up and Listen!

  • Hard Business Truths that Will Help You Succeed
  • By: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray
  • Narrated by: Tilman Fertitta
  • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,792 ratings)

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Shut Up and Listen!

By: Tilman Fertitta, Jim Gray
Narrated by: Tilman Fertitta
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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
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Critic reviews

"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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Finally someone who gives you real business advice

certainly real business advice not someone only trying to motivate you but tell you real strategies that have worked for them and that you work for your business

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shut up and listen to Tilman

if you want to 10X your brick and mortar business, Listen to this guy. otherwise, go and listen to fake Gurus who never had a single business

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Thank you, Mr. Tillman

I thought the book was great, informative and inspiring. I’m an aspiring entrepreneur who is starting from the DBA stages and I feel like I can use “Tillman’s Targets” and be successful beyond my wildest dreams. Great read. Enjoy!

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Straight and to the point

You don’t have to guess what he is trying to say because he tells you in plane words. He also reiterates himself which makes for a great lesson.

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Best Business Book

Best business book w great advice I’ve read to date and I’ve read and listen to a bunch. Good / sound straight forward advice. Excellent examples of Mr. Fertitta experiences.

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Good read

Good read to get back to the basics with business. Highly recommend and you will enjoy it!

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Short, Sweet, Valuable Advice

Tilman offers great pointers any entrepreneur can out to work immediately. As succinct as it is sincere.

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great leader very difficult space of restaurants

A lot of great ideas I would love to work with Tillman on a waste cost reduction program for his restaurants in the future.

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Entertaining but

Very entertaining but I wanted more detailed business knowledge and experiences. This book was more of an overview versus some of the other business help books.

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Review of shut up and listen

Great Audio books that has lots of great info for business owners and is entertaining and not dry like a lot of Audio books .

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