Business

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

Never compromise quality at the expense of a short-term gain. This is a one-way ticket to a short-term customer. – Dad

In sales, necessity is the mother of repetition. Without it you are easily forgotten. – Dad