Francesca Cartier Brickell

The Cartiers Key Takeaways and Lessons:

Louis Cartier:
1. Be very kind. Be very kind to everyone you meet regardless of race, background, gender preferences, pronoun preferences, religion and language. Treat them with respect and decorum.
2. Pay your bills on time. Have a schedule for paying bills and stick with it.
3. Be imaginative in your creations of writing and output. Use your brain to think outside the box and create something unique and special for your reader to enjoy. Start by not using English titles for your works.
4. Be inventive in your life. In your novels. In saving money. In your relationships with those you come into contact with by delivering a high and excellent standard of service and being kind, courteous, discrete, and delivering by a certain deadline.
5. Work with and alongside your peers for your benefit and those of the writing community. Not against them. Share your writings and novels for free. Share their writings by reviewing their works and books in your own unique style.

Pierre Cartier:
1. Be discreet at all times when working with people.
2. Be a networker. Negotiate terms that are agreeable to those you work with. Especially in writing projects.
3. Have and show financial prudence and astuteness when looking to purchase something or looking to add something new to your possessions. Have financial prudence to weather the bad times. When others are distressed buy. When others are buying do not buy. Wait and save and watch what others are doing. But do not copy. Just watch and listen to them buy and then complain about not having enough money. Be the financial steward of your money. Do not let money affect you. Live simply on protein, some favored snacks, and drinks and reading books from the library. And saving a lot of money discretely.
4. Treat everyone with the utmost respect no matter what. Speak well of others. Relationships are key in God’s eyes so make every relationship matter to you by making it healthy and beneficial for both you and them.
5. Prioritize your family but your health above all. Prioritize your finances and happiness.
6. Work hard for success at work. At being independent from your parents. At reading books and taking notes and writing about them in your journals. At writing novels every four months. At learning languages and applying what you learn about the culture, customs, mannerisms and business as well as behavioral practices and speech to your life at all times. Work hard at earning your own money and keeping your own money safe and secure.
7. Wealth comes with responsibility. Manage your money well and it will take care of you later on. Save every little amount. For it matters. Save any way you can and be diligent about putting money away.
8. Personify and maintain discretion if you want to retain the loyalty of those you work with. They need to on trust you. Also keep a record of works read and update it frequently.
9. Have the funds for the initial payment (meaning price) and look up on Internet about weekly monetary payments in order to buy the item in cash when feasible.

Jacques Cartier:
1. When spending and saving, think of the future. Your future and your children’s future.
2. Don’t act or be entitled. Be gracious and mind instead.
3. Live life according according to the tenets of Christianity. Or for you Judaism. Find out what those tenets are and vow to live by them. No matter what.
4. Never be afraid to learn from those others deem difficult. Learn. Grow. Thrive. Prosper. Also learn, grow, thrive, and prosper from reading books, taking notes, and writing about it in your journals. Write about what you are reading in your novels by incorporating them by year of publication and having the characters discuss their viewpoints.
5. Have an intrinsic understanding of design and how designs work. Know how the design works together. Focus on the detail most of all. Make it important but not overtly so. Be discrete about it in your novels and when you are speaking to people. Be discrete and quiet in your speech and mannerisms when dealing with people.
6. Provide a high standard of care to those you come into contact with. Make them feel special and important in every interaction you have. Especially with those you come into contact with in writing or at bookstores or libraries. Treat everyone as if each interaction is unique and special. For it is to you.
7. Work in strengthening your relationships with your siblings. Go at their pace. They need you in their lives. Eventually they will realise this. Be patient and understanding of them and their issues. Yet do not pry into their lives. As they don’t in yours. Have love and respect for them and always speak highly of them regardless if they can’t stand you for whatever reason. Eventually they will come around and want to be in contact of their own choice. Reach out at their birthdays via a phone call and text. Discuss your writings with them and what you are currently reading. If just might inspire them to read the book themselves!
8. Write poetry for free. Eventually someone will buy your poetry or commission you to write one for them. Look for inspiration everywhere and from anything. Write every day.
9. Don’t let anyone marry you because of how much money there is. Instead marry them for the characteristics that will make the marriage last for a lifetime.
10. Be unwilling to take on debt.
11. Instead pay the full amount up front and pay off as soon as possible before the due date.
12. Come up with unique ideas for your novels and write it down without compromising the quality of your work or detailed research.
13. Think in terms of new design possibilities in presenting your novels without compromising on your values or ethos.

Jean-Jacques Cartier:
1. “Never copy. Only create. Inspiration could and should come from everywhere- except from existing jewelry.”- Jean-Jacques Cartier- Gain inspiration from everywhere for your writing projects. Never copy. Only create. Be unique and original in your writings and poetry. Look for the little gems and expand upon it in a poetry novel or in writing a novel.
2. Create new works of art through taking the time to research and doing an excellent job in making sure you are unique in your titles and storyline. Don’t accept second best craftsmanship. Be first-rate.
3. Don’t imitate others writing style. Create your own. Remember “never copy, only create.” Take inspiration from past centuries in your world but never copy. Always give credit.
4. Be adaptive conscious. Adapt quickly but seamlessly. Adapt snd update your work and poetry to the style you think fits best for that specific work or poetry series. Adapt to the different customs and culture of the languages you are learning.
5. “It was Cartier’s role to adapt and update.” Adapt and update your style of writing and gain inspiration through producing content of high quality and a high standard.
6. “It’s simplicity too, this Cartier ‘style’…Simplicity, restraint, and a quiet confident look of quality.”- Simplicity- keep your world and poetry simple but unique. Understated but elegant. Restraint- Keep your work under your own control as much as possible by providing different avenues of reading your work yourself without ceding control to others. Dk everything yourself.

Gaekwad Sarajirao III:

1. Be humble. If will keep you grounded. Do not lose the foundation of your upbringing in financial matters and education.
2. Do good throughout your life.
3. Always offer yourself an opportunity for education. Offer the same to others as well if possible.
4. Experience different cultures and countries by traveling widely on your vacations. Save up for the vacation and go when you are ready.
5. Take notes on your travels so that you can incorporate what you learn into your own life and that of which can improve your family back home in your own small way.

Biggest Takeaway

Family bonds are everything.

Quote in Summary

“To succeed in business, be discreet, and put the client first. Deliver a high standard of work to them and remember manners are important as well as kindness and astute listening to what they want.”… (altro)

One of my favourite ways to pass the time at work is to listen to an audiobook about a topic I neither know or care about just so I can learn things I never otherwise would. Jewellery is one of those subjects. All I knew about jewellery was that it's expensive, people like it, and I can only tell them apart by the Pokèmon games. I have to say, starting from a base of knowledge as severely lacking as that, I learned a lot more than I ever expected to.

This book is much longer than I thought would ever be necessary starting out, but it held my attention all the way through and I was disappointed when it ended. The stories of the family's legacy generation after generation with all the highs and lows of so many lifetimes from the 1800s to the present day was absolutely incapsulating. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this at all, I found this entire book surprisingly interesting and I can honestly say I learned things about the jewellery business I never would have if it wasn't for this book. Definitely listen to the audiobook if you can. I'm very impressed by the quality of this story and I'm very glad I gave it a chance.… (altro)