How To Be Successful: 13 Powerful Rules For Business

  1. Improve Exponentially – compound yourself; don’t get caught scaling linearly.
  2. Have Almost Too Much Self-Belief – persevere because you know you’re onto something.
  3. Learn to Think Independently – think from first principles and have people that challenge you.
  4. Get Good at “Sales” – you have to convince others your ideas are good.
  5. Make it Easy to Take Risks – keep your life cheap and flexible for as long as you can.
  6. Focus – spend more time thinking what the focus should be first!
  7. Work Hard – work stamina – a big predictor of success – put in the hours.
  8. Be Bold – boring companies don’t spark the imagination.
  9. Be Wilful – ask for what you want.
  10. Be Hard to Compete With – build up leverage; be different.
  11. Build a Network – of people who are “a force of nature.
  12. You Get Rich by Owning Things – equity, IP, real estate, etc.
  13. Be Internally Driven – be obsessed, extreme, and perform!
    – Sam Altman