4/22/23
How To Be Successful: 13 Powerful Rules For Business
- Improve Exponentially – compound yourself; don’t get caught scaling linearly.
- Have Almost Too Much Self-Belief – persevere because you know you’re onto something.
- Learn to Think Independently – think from first principles and have people that challenge you.
- Get Good at “Sales” – you have to convince others your ideas are good.
- Make it Easy to Take Risks – keep your life cheap and flexible for as long as you can.
- Focus – spend more time thinking what the focus should be first!
- Work Hard – work stamina – a big predictor of success – put in the hours.
- Be Bold – boring companies don’t spark the imagination.
- Be Wilful – ask for what you want.
- Be Hard to Compete With – build up leverage; be different.
- Build a Network – of people who are “a force of nature.
- You Get Rich by Owning Things – equity, IP, real estate, etc.
- Be Internally Driven – be obsessed, extreme, and perform!
– Sam Altman
April 22, 2023
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