This clip was brought to my attention by Winnie Lai of Clinicbook. A great and passionate entrepreneur. Love this clip by Simon Sinek (after the break), because he teaches to ask “why?” first before you do anything.
Most people start a business to make money. While I don’t discount that your business needs to be kept financially afloat, if you really want to build a great company…
Don’t be realistic. Why would you be realistic?
“It’s unrealistic to walk into a room, flip a switch and have lights turn on. Fortunately, Edison didn’t think so.”
It’s unrealistic to give humans the ability to Continue reading
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. By Steve Jobs.
Praised as one of the best speeches ever written.
“Remembering You’ll Soon Be Dead Is the Most Important Tool to Help Make the Big Choices in Life”
Video after the break:
You have to really love what you do. Because if you don’t, it’ll be so hard to keep doing it over a sustained period of time, and eventually you’ll give up. Those were said by the late Steve Jobs.
This is especially true when you are trying to achieve something that people perceive as impossible. You need to fundamentally believe that what you are doing is important to you, important to your customers and to whoever else it may impact.
And you may not be right with the approach you take to achieve the goal the first few times, but believing passionately in it will give you the drive and persistence to keep you moving forward, regardless of how hard the road may be.
And lastly, don’t be realistic with what you believe. If everyone was realistic, we may not have some of the great inventions we enjoy today.