Business

People will tell you along your career path to “follow your passion”.  The problem with that is what you love may not be what you’re best at or where you have the best chance of success.  – Dad

Money follows success, not the other way around. – Mat Ishbia

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

You don’t need to know all the answers, but you do need to know where to find them. – David Abeles

You can’t fit a round peg into a square hole unless you redesign the hole. The challenge lies then in knowing when to change the hole and when to change the peg. – Dad

Success flows downstream, but failure flows up. – Dad