I listened to every billionaire entrepreneur’s interview I could possibly find and here’s a list of life-advice that is most repeated:
1. Sleep is a luxury but important for boosting productivity and making high quality decisions.
1. Sleep is a luxury but important for boosting productivity and making high quality decisions.
2. If you’re building something, try to have a working prototype. That alone will answer a lot of questions from the potential investors.
3. Solve one problem for the larger good of humanity.
4. Do what most people don’t want to do to get to where you want to be
3. Solve one problem for the larger good of humanity.
4. Do what most people don’t want to do to get to where you want to be
5. Pain + Reflection = Progress.
6. Learn whatever it takes to improve your discipline and focus. It could be anything from learning martial arts to practicing meditation, yoga or even undergoing military training.
7. Give back to the community.
6. Learn whatever it takes to improve your discipline and focus. It could be anything from learning martial arts to practicing meditation, yoga or even undergoing military training.
7. Give back to the community.
8. No matter how good your product, service, routine or talk is, chances are, it ain’t perfect. It probably never will be. Perfection shouldn’t be the only driving factor.
9. Your aspirations should always be BIG. You can’t exceed your highest aspiration.
9. Your aspirations should always be BIG. You can’t exceed your highest aspiration.
10. Be bold, experiment. Few big successes compensate for all the failures.
11. It helps to have a beginner’s mind even after knowing everything about it.
12. Be open to criticism. If you aren’t you won’t do anything that is worth making history
11. It helps to have a beginner’s mind even after knowing everything about it.
12. Be open to criticism. If you aren’t you won’t do anything that is worth making history
13. Be rigid about your end goal but flexible in the ways you’ll be taking to reach it.
14. To do great things, you have to absolutely love doing the work.
15. Be OKAY with the things you can’t control. 16. It’s not about how you start it, it’s about how you finish it.
14. To do great things, you have to absolutely love doing the work.
15. Be OKAY with the things you can’t control. 16. It’s not about how you start it, it’s about how you finish it.
16. You need a mastermind (high intelligence + high energy + high integrity) group of people who’ll help you take your business forward.
17. Listen and actually pay attention to what people are saying.
18. Eliminate any decision making which is repetitive or trivial.
17. Listen and actually pay attention to what people are saying.
18. Eliminate any decision making which is repetitive or trivial.
19. “It can’t be done” - no matter who’s telling it…don’t let it deflect you from your goal.
20. Mentors can help solve problems that you don’t need to experience to learn.
21. Focus on product quality with an aim of a long term solution rather than a quick fix
20. Mentors can help solve problems that you don’t need to experience to learn.
21. Focus on product quality with an aim of a long term solution rather than a quick fix
22. You’ve to know everything going in with your company/product development. No excuses.
23. Learning and upskilling is a lifelong game
23. Learning and upskilling is a lifelong game
24. You’ve to absolutely become fearless in asking questions. Curiosity is important for growth.
25. Assign a due date for your tasks. Whatever due date you put, your task will adapt to that (Parkinson’s Law).
26. Staying fit…helps you better in all phases of life.
25. Assign a due date for your tasks. Whatever due date you put, your task will adapt to that (Parkinson’s Law).
26. Staying fit…helps you better in all phases of life.
27. You’ve to respect your time and adapt one time management tool - be it time boxing, to-do with due date, pomodoro - whatever works.
28. Books can teach you something which is not in your awareness currently.
29. You’ve to be confident even in the face of adversity
28. Books can teach you something which is not in your awareness currently.
29. You’ve to be confident even in the face of adversity
30. What pain the customers are already facing is where your next growth idea is seeded.
31. The toughest thing that will be tested on you is going to be your resilience.
32. You’ll find a lot of answers once you learn to reverse engineer.
31. The toughest thing that will be tested on you is going to be your resilience.
32. You’ll find a lot of answers once you learn to reverse engineer.
33. If you don’t keep your mind open to change, to adapt…to plan for potential disruptions, you’re going to lose.
34. Be aware of what kind of things you consume (watch, read, talk about). The perceptions that you form will either become your prison or your passport. Thx Tony
34. Be aware of what kind of things you consume (watch, read, talk about). The perceptions that you form will either become your prison or your passport. Thx Tony
35. Don’t stuff yourself with food. Use food as a fuel not as a trippy experience. Too much food makes you lazy.
36. You have to be willing to make sacrifices and say no to occasions that don’t serve your immediate goal
36. You have to be willing to make sacrifices and say no to occasions that don’t serve your immediate goal
37. Journey to any valuable goal involves a lot of practice, trial and error..than we think.
38. You’ve to have the appetite to lose money and fire people who don’t adhere to the overall trajectory of your company/product. (perhaps an unpopular opinion)
38. You’ve to have the appetite to lose money and fire people who don’t adhere to the overall trajectory of your company/product. (perhaps an unpopular opinion)
39. Ideas can get copied easily, but matching the rigour and intensity of a high quality execution is one of the toughest things to pull-off.
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