25 Quotes from Samuel Dergel's book - Guide to CFO Success: Leadership Strategies for Corporate Financial Professionals. Available Now for Pre-Order with Delivery March 31, 2014. http://www.guidetocfosuccess.com

1. 25 Quotes from
GUIDE TO
CFO SUCCESS
Leadership Strategies for
Corporate Financial Professionals
Available Now for Pre-order
For delivery March 31, 2014
S AMUE L DE RG E L

2. CAREER
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3. CAREER
/ QUOTES
You can only be a successful CFO if you focus on your
career and your employer.
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4. CAREER
/ QUOTES
If your employer fears that improving yourself would
be detrimental to its interests, maybe you shouldn’t be
working there.
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5. CAREER
/ QUOTES
You cannot have career success without employment
success, and you cannot have employment success
without career success. Becoming a better CFO
benefits your employer and your career.
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6. CAREER
/ QUOTES
The further you want to move up the corporate
ladder, the fewer opportunities will present themselves
to you. To be able to continue to move up the
corporate ladder and achieve and grow, you need
to realize that there are more people competing for
fewer positions.
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7. CAREER
/ QUOTES
Being CFO is the business that you run, not the
business you work for. You are your own business. Your
customer is the business you work for, you are
compensated by the business you work for and have
to deliver value for the business you work for.
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8. NETWORKING
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9. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
Networking is a verb. You build a network by actively
networking.
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10. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
Too many individuals network with the purpose of
accomplishing an immediate goal. That’s not
networking, that’s selling.
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11. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
Those that win in networking give first, give generously,
and give often.
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12. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
Those that win in networking give first, give generously,
and give often.
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13. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
The value you will get from networking with people
you don’t know yet is higher than the value of
networking with people you’ve known for years who
are in the same situation as you are.
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14. NETWORKING
/ QUOTES
The size of your network doesn’t matter—it is the
quality of your network that counts.
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15. CFO IN TRANSITION
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16. CFO IN TRANSITION
/ QUOTES
A CFO in transition is earning a round number,
otherwise known as zero.
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17. CFO IN TRANSITION
/ QUOTES
The recession of the late 2000s was a wake-up call for
many senior corporate finance professionals. Too
many CFOs found out the hard way that their careers
could not be taken for granted.
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18. CFO IN TRANSITION
/ QUOTES
Your new job is looking for your next job. You may be
a great CFO, but that does not make you a great job
seeker.
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19. CFO IN TRANSITION
/ QUOTES
When you invest in your career consistently, great
opportunities will find you first.
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20. CFO IN TRANSITION
/ QUOTES
Your resume is only marketing material. You still have
to sell your way in to the right opportunity for you and
then close the deal.
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21. BEING CFO
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22. BEING CFO
/ QUOTES
Successful CFOs prepare their plans, write them down,
review them, check their progress against the plans,
and modify their plans as circumstances change and
milestones are reached. These CFOs keep themselves
accountable to themselves.
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23. BEING CFO
/ QUOTES
The world is constantly changing. Are you staying the
same? The good news is that most of your peers are
staying the same. Your fellow CFOs are coasting their
way out of the CFO chair. To become the best CFO
you can be and to stay ahead of the pack, you need
a competitive advantage. Consider an executive
coach.
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24. BEING CFO
/ QUOTES
There is one talent that a Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
must have to be successful—the ability to make
people feel comfortable. The successful CFO makes
people comfortable by inspiring trust.
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25. BEING CFO
/ QUOTES
The single most common thread between all different
and successful CFOs is their excellence in managing
relationships.
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26. BEING CFO
/ QUOTES
CFOs are very caring and responsible people. They
feel a personal responsibility to the company, its
shareholders, employees, and anyone else whose
livelihood depends on the success of the company
they work for. CFOs take this responsibility seriously and
very personally.
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27. YOUR FINANCE TEAM
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28. YOUR FINANCE TEAM
/ QUOTES
When CFOs are asking others in the company to do
more with less, it is morally challenging for them to
increase their spending on resources.
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29. YOUR FINANCE TEAM
/ QUOTES
Be mindful that you have to be careful about
company resources, but don’t use this as an excuse to
have a lean team that is not able to deliver what it—
and you—must.
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30. YOUR FINANCE TEAM
/ QUOTES
It is your responsibility to inspire, guide, believe in, and
mentor your team.
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31. YOUR FINANCE TEAM
/ QUOTES
If you want to keep the best, don’t keep the worst.
Culling the herd will motivate your superstars.
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32. BECOMING CFO
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33. BECOMING CFO
/ QUOTES
If you want to become a CFO, learn the CFO game,
emulate other CFOs, learn CFO skills, act as if you
were the CFO.
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34. / QUOTE
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