Steve jobs quotes - part1

On Passion

"People say you have to have lot of passion for what you doing and it is totally true and the reason is because it is so hard that, if you don't, any rational person would give up.

It is really hard and you have to do it over a sustain period of time. So if you don't love it, if you are not having fun doing it, you don't really love it, you are going to give up and that's what happening with most people.

Actually if you really look it, at the ones that ended us being successful on the eyes of society and the ones didn't, often times it's the ones that successful, loved what they did, so like they push a year when it got really tough. And ones that didn't love it, QUIT, because they're sane. Right, who would want put up stuff if you don't love it. So it's lot of hard work and it is lot of worrying constantly and if you don't love it, you're gonna fail. So you gonna love it and have passion"

On team building

"Greatest people are self-managing, they don't need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they're going to figure out how to do it. They don't need to be managed at all.

What they need is a common vision and that's what leadership is. What leadership is having a vision, being able to articulate that so the people around you can understand it and giving a consensus on common vision.

We wanted people that were insanely great at what they did. But weren't necessarily those seasoned professionals. But who has on at the tips of there fingers, in there passion, the latest understanding where technology was and what we could do with that technology and wanted to bring them, lots of people.

So the nearest thing that happens is when you get a core group of 10 great people, it becomes self policing as they who let into their group. So I consider the most important job of someone like myself is recruiting.

We went through that stage in Apple where we .. Oh! we're going to be a big company, let's have professional management. We went and hired a bunch of professional management, it didn't work at all. Most of them are bozos, they knew how to management, but they didn't knew how to do anything and so if you're a great person, why do you want to work for someone, you can't learn anything from.

And you know what's interesting? you know who're the best managers are? they're the great individual contributors, who never ever want to be a manager, but decide they have to be a manager, because no one else is going to being able to do job as them"

On money

"It's very interesting, I was worth over a million when I was 23 and over 10 million dollars when I was 24 and over 100 million dollar when I was 25. And it wasn't that important, because I never did it for money.

I think money is wonderful thing because it enables you to do things, enables you to invest in ideas that don't have short term pay backs like that, but specially at that point in life it was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the company, the people, the products we were making, what we are going to enable people do with these products. So I don' think about it a great deal.

I never sold any stock, just really believed that the company will do very well over the long term"

Elon musk quotes - part2

"You got to make sure that, what ever you are doing is the great product or service, it has to be really great."

"When I go back to saying earlier where, if you are a new company, unless its like some new industry or new market, if its untapped market, then this standard is lower for your product or service."

"But if you are entering anything where this is an existing market place, against large and crunched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs."

"It cant be little bit better, because when you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer, and they say why I would buy as a consumer, always they're going to buy trusted brand unless there is a big difference"

"So lot of times, you know, entrepreneur will come up with something which is only slightly better and it can't just be slightly better, it needs to be lot better"

Elon Musk Quotes - Part 1

I think it is important to apply critical thinking to what one is doing and by that I mean just fundamentals of logic. Do you have the right axioms and are they relevant and are you making the right conclusions based on those axioms. THAT'S THE ESSENCE OF CRITICAL THINKING. And it is amazing how often people failed to do that.

And I think wishful thinking is innate in human brain. You want things to the way you wish seems to be ensure, tend to filter information, that you shouldn't filter. That's the most common flow I see.

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It's very difficult to start companies and quite painful and that's important to bear in mind & that's non-encouraging.  Bring it to this way; "If you need inspiring words, don't do it"


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Interviewer: You have 3rd failure in a row. Did you think I need to pack this in?
Musk: Never

Interviewer: Why not?
Musk: I never give up. I mean I have to be dead or ...

Do These 5 Things for 1 hr Daily & Your Life will Change Forever

Original link : https://bizztor.com/5-things-1-hr-daily-life-will-change-forever/

1. WHAT YOU DO EVERY NIGHT IS IMPORTANT
2. READ MORE, ANYTHING WILL DO!
3. DO SOME PROJECTS
4. ACTIVELY BUILD YOUR CONNECTIONS
5. THE CHANGE OF YOUR LIFE STARTS TONIGHT

Quotes from this link

"the activities you do between 6 am and 12 midnight, the importance is beyond your imagination"
"If you found yourself not progressing in life, You cannot blame and put the responsibility on your company for not grooming you."
"Every day, when my children are sleeping, I began learning to gain more knowledge, this again took me a long time, But I begin to realise my returns."
"If I rely on my working hours to gain skills then I will never have become a creative director and a product manager, or like today, teaching MBA students on Marketing.

What I rely on, is myself giving myself “lessons”

"For them, what they do between 6 pm till 12 midnight, is what determined their future."

"Reading can give you a good headstart, this is often what your peers cannot obtain."

"If you spend one hour a day to learn about a topic, a year later, in this regard, the knowledge you gain will be more than 99.999% of the world’s people.”

"Even if you have 30 minutes every night, each week you can easily read a book. You may not be an expert, but I promise, you’ll know more than what your peers know."

Usain Bolt - Training behind the scenes

There are quite a few inspirational documentaries about Usain Bolt. The one here

  is an extract of his training part.

Excerpts

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Bolt: Dying ... I think a lot of people just they see you run and they say ohh it look so easy, it look effortless. But before you get to that point its hard, like hard work.

It's day-in day-out sacrifice, day-in day-out just dying.

This time when you running, you just want to stop yourself and want to give up like there, and you just want to go home.

The day when you get up, you know what, you have a training today, you know its going to be intense thing, Oh god!, I dont want to go today, but you got to go, is so hard, people don't know. 

Reporter: we are not used to see you so suffering

Bolt: Thats why you guys are here. so the true story in it

Reporter: This here is the reality? Do you mean that competition is not the reality?

Bolt: Listen! The work is behind the scene. Competition is easy part. Behind the scenes is where the work is done. Every thing is done to get that one reason, you need to run.