The Tao of Business Success:

Business Plan

Executive Summary of a Business Plan: Tao-style

Composed of the Quotes from Tao Te Chin by Lao Tzu (app. 500 BC)

Company Overview

Products & services being developed

"We make a home by hammering, but it is the space in between walls that makes it possible for living."

Targeted market

"We make pots from clay, but it is only the emptiness inside, which allows us to fill in whatever we want."

Brief history

"To create and develop without any feelings of ownership, to work and guide without any expectation and control, is the best quality."

Milestones completed and future plans

"There is time to go ahead, and there is time to go back.

There is time to move on, and there is time to rest.

There is time to be enthusiastic, and there is a time to stop also.

There is time to be courageous, and there is time to be afraid."

Management Team

"Those who trust themselves, never give clarifications to others."

"When the Master rules, people cannot make note of his existence."

Products and Services

Product

"We join spokes together in the wheels, but it is the hole in the wheel that drives the vehicle."

Operational plan

"The journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step."

"Everything will settle in its own place automatically."

"If you want to achieve real intelligence, let things happen on their own accord. By coming in between you will lose everything."

Development risk

"The true traveler has neither any plan nor any intentions to reach the destination."

Risk management strategy

"Finishing small works at a time, will result in a great task."

Growth risk

"As you know more, you understand less."

Risk management strategy

"Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts."

Other risks

"Success is as dangerous as failure."

Risk management strategy

"Stop thinking, and bring an end to all your questions. What is the difference between "success" and "failure"?"

Markets

Analysis

"What others apprise, the same you want too, what others avoid, the same you want too, that is why, you fail as others, how ridiculous it is!"

"By chasing desires you will meet only the outer surface."

Competition

"When people see beauty in specific things, then other things become charmless.

When people see goodness in something, then other things become bad."

Marketing strategy

"Be satisfied with whatever you have, and enjoy the same. When you come to know that you have everything, and you are not short of anything, then the whole world will be yours."

Funds Required and Uses

"If you really want everything, then give up everything."

Financial Projections

"If you are running too much after money and security, you will never find peace of heart."

"By trying to possess a thing, you will lose it."