Entrepreneurship is moreover a passion; not just greed. It is more about the interest of doing, than the result. If you are an entrepreneur and are afraid of failure, the career tips given below can be useful for you. It talks how each mistake is a step to move ahead towards the ultimate goal.
Elon Musk – Co-founder of PayPal, CEO of Tesla, and founder of SpaceX
This South African-born American entrepreneur is a bohemian. The Telsa CEO is also the co-founder of PayPal, at the same time being founder of commercial space program SpaceX. Answering a question on the level of doubt he possesses for each project, he answers that-
He always had in his mind that his projects are going to fail. But, he too had the feeling that those are still quite important to be tried, no matter the chances of success is less than 50%.”
J.K. Rowling – Author of the Harry Potter series
Who doesn’t know the great Harry Potter novel, creating history of 450 million copies being sold!
J.K. Rowling, the author of this trendsetter novel has a net worth of about US$850 million. However, Rowling has seen the worst days as well, about which she talked in her 2008 commencement speech at Harvard University. Basically, she conveyed that failure is not negative always.
Upon being asked about why she talks about advantages of failure, she justifies it saying that failure is all about sidelining the irrelevant. She says that, she stopped acting being herself that she was the same person after so many happenings, and started to channelize all her energy into her ultimate passion. She says if she was successful in anything else, she may not have achieved that she truly loved.
Stewart Butterfield – Co-founder of Flickr and Slack
Stewart Butterfield is a popular businessman of Canada. However, he is mostly known for being the co-founder of the photo sharing website Flickr and group texting app Slack.
Through the process of suggesting some crucial tips for modern day youth with Adam Bryant of the New York Times, he said that successful people get specifically what they want to do at a very early. According to him, the age of early 20s is very crucial. Youth at this age are usually very serious, and they want to feel like achieving a lot quicker than anyone else, rather than putting efforts on distinguishing the mistakes. Thus, Stewart thinks they should be more experimental at that age.
Mark Cuban – Shark Tank investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks
Mark Cubna, known for the show Shark Tank, came into news post selling his startups MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com in the 1990s, and got popularity as being the passionate owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks.
Known for his controversial statement, Cuban though often gives practically useful advices. He says the only thing anyone can control is effort. Cuban believes that one should try to get expertise in whatever he/she is doing.
Sheryl Sandberg – COO of Facebook
Sheryl Sandberg deals with the most challenging aspect of monetizing the most popular social networking site of the earth, ensuring users are happy and finding the site intuitive. Being the COO, her responsibility is huge, but that doesn’t bother Sandberg. She started her as the developer of Google’s most buzzed digital advertising programs. At the same time, she has also worked as an economist at the World Bank and as chief of staff to then-U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers.
Talking about being genuine at workplaces, she says that she doesn’t believe in being a professional in between Mondays to Fridays and someone else for the rest of the week. Such mindset doesn’t work. She says she has got emotional at work place, has talked about her wishes and asked others. However, she never doubts her ability, neither neglects her weaknesses; and she encourages others about the same as well.
Bill Gates – Founder of Microsoft
He is an iconic figure in business arena. At the same time being an entrepreneur and philanthropist at the same time, Bill is popular for being the richest person in the world. Mr Gates took it to twitter to give some advices to fresh college graduates, and mentioned that Artificial Intelligence, energy, and biosciences are prolific study arenas where one can do something distinguishing. He recommends graduates for having those people around them who would challenge them, give opportunity of learning, and drag the best out.
Simon Sinek – Leadership expert and author
Simon Sinek says he is a person who always remains in effort to discover, cherish, and educates leaders on how to develop inspiring platforms for others. Simon is an expert ethnographer as well, at the same time being and the writer of the book Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action. In 2012, Sinek took it to twitter to encourage about dreaming big, no matter the start small. But what matters is to start the process.
Steve Jobs – Co-founder of Apple
Being the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs is an idol to many. He is given lion’s part of the credit for whatever the company has achieved. It’s all about extreme passion towards the job in his case. In his commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs said that one’s life is all about the effort he/she puts, and the explicit way to be actually gratified in life is to do the work for which one has respect, or which one thinks is great. And, someone can do the great when he/she loves it. Be in consistent effort of finding that work. He advises not to be content until the same is found. He says a person’s heart has the best answer for this.
Jeff Bezos – Founder and CEO of Amazon.com
Founder and CEO of world’s largest online retailer Amazon.com and founder of space company Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, is presently the wealthiest person in the world, having net worth of $134 billion as of May 2018. While attaining a forum on leadership in April 2018, Bezos advised the upcoming generation that one can simply do a job, pursue a career, or listen to what calling in his heart. And once the person managed to understand the way of getting what’s calling inside, that is going to be the biggest fortune for him/her.
Mark Zuckerberg – Co-founder and CEO of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction. He is the co-founder and CEO of Facebook and indeed his name comes in the list of the wealthiest over the globe. During an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup School in Palo Alto, California, Mark said that the ultimate risk is about not taking any risk at all. In a swiftly changing earth, the only confirmed thing is that one is surely going to fail if he/she is not taking risks.
Tobias Lütke – Founder and CEO of Shopify
CEO of Shopify (the most popular e-commerce company) Tobias Lütke, during an interview said that he always encourage people to find a place that kind of culturally aligns with what they’re trying to achieve, and can simply move for it.
Marla Malcolm Beck – Co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury
Marla Malcolm Beck, the co-founder and CEO of Bluemercury (an extravagant beauty retailer and spa that was sold to Macy’s for $210 million in 2015), during an interview with Adam Bryant of the New York Times, advised the graduating college students to develop expertise or skill set into an organization they are part of, or be the person with the expertise that nobody else has.
Chip Wilson – Founder and former CEO of Lululemon Athletica
Chip Wilson currently managing a portfolio of companies under the name Hold It All, is the founder and former CEO of athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica. In the year 2013, Wilson shared the million dollar advice that he had ever received with Business Insider. In fact, Chip said it took long time for him to actually get the advice. However, the advised that one should not hesitate or feel insecure about asking others about help; people actually love helping.
Brian Chesky – Co-founder and CEO of Airbnb
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO Airbnb, during an interview with the New York Times’ Adam Bryant suggested that the modern day graduates should not listen to their parents.
Though Brian accepts that parents are the most important relationships in anyone’s life, but one should never listen to parents, when it comes about career. However, Brian added that he is using parents as a proxy for all other types of pressures in the world. He too added that irrespective of the career, one should assume that it’s going to be a huge flop. This will help you in choosing a career not just based on success, money or career; rather based on doing what you love.
Tony Robbins – Inspirational speaker
Tony Robbins is a renowned business consultant, author, and philanthropist. During a Facebook Live discussion in 2016 hosted by Business Insider, Robbins talked about the advice he was given during early phase of his career by his mentor, the late motivational speaker Jim Rohn. He was advised that one’s worth in the marketplace is based on his ability to be more productive than anyone else. If one can come up with a way to do greater things for others in an organisation, for the staffs, for the clients, in comparison to others, you can be more privileged. But for the same, one needs to develop skills first.
Maya Angelou – Author and activist
Maya Angelou is an iconic personality. Her quotes are the proofs why she is such a celebrated writer. She often advises that one can only be satisfied about something that he/she loves. Moreover, money should not be one’s goal. Rather, one should pursue the things that he/she loves doing and then do those with so much of passion that it get tough for others to ignore you.
Melanie Whelan – CEO of SoulCycl
Melanie Whelan, the CEO of fitness chain SoulCycle, suggests that fresh graduates should concentrate on the present instead of judging what they should do and what not. In an interview with the New York Times’ Adam Bryant, she suggested that one should first get a job and put her best there. One certainly will be learning going to learn a lot irrespective of the job it is. She thus advises not to stress much about the job or its nature. She advises to accept the conditions, and be ready for any challenge.
Rick Goings – CEO of Tupperware Brands
Rick Goings, the CEO of Tupperware Brands, started his professional life as a door-to-door salesman, and in fact he failed in doing that. During an interview with Business Insider in 2015, he talked about how vital are the failures in the pursuit of success. He values the experiences one gets through failure as it gives the best lessons for life. He believes that one should fail in life to be successful. Success is not going to be an easy path, and it’s the tough challenges that direct someone towards it.
Salli Setta – President of Red Lobster
The president of popular restaurant chain Red Lobster, Salli Setta during her interview with Business Insider said that she finds lunch hour as the best occasions for building network.
She says this hour is not just about talking random things while taking food. Rather, she believes it’s about the way one decides to spend this lunch in mind. Hence, she suggests having questions ain mind, with creative ideas for a quality time.
Henry Ford – Founder of Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford is a revolutionary name in automobile world. The founder of Ford Motor Company once said that it is impossible for someone to build fame based on what he/she is going to do. Moreover, he wants people with entrepreneurial desires should understand this, and realise that they have not taken any action!
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