do you really want success?
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DO YOU REALLY WANT SUCCESS?There were 6 key messages from Mike Bloomberg, CEO of Bloomberg LP
Mike Bloomberg• Mike Bloomberg, CEO of
Bloomberg LP is 73 , is a self made billionaire and is currently the 14th richest man in the world with a net worth of around £26.6 billion.
• Recently Mike Bloomberg was in London at a Goldman Sachs event to help small businesses and had plenty of advice for those who are striving for business success.
Keep perspective
• “I’ve never had a bad job. I’ve only ever had 2 bad days in my life – when my mother died and my father died. Apart from that, how bad can it be?”
• As long as you’re alive and your family members are alive, suck it up!
Work hard
• “If there’s only one key to success, it’s hard work. I always give the most difficult and complicated assignment I have to the most overworked person in the company. There’s a reason they don’t have time – work is a marketplace, and it’s telling you this person is good.”
• Take working hard to the next level. Get in early, leave late, and go further than your competitors.
Have realistic goals
• “None of you are going to be Mark Zuckerbergs. It’s just not going to happen,”
• Manage your expectations, stop dreaming about the first billion and start making it happen.
Love what you do
• “It must be miserable to wake up every day and hate what you do. Go and do something else. If you hate it, how can it be worse?”
• You’ll never be great at something if you don’t like doing it.
Thrive in adversity
• “If you say, “Oh last week I cured cancer, 2 weeks before that I wrote the great American novel, and last month I brought peace to the Middle East,” my eyes glaze over”
• “But if you say, “Look, my father never existed, my mum had cancer, I’m working 5 shifts at McDonalds, that’s the person I’m going to hire.”
• As a self-made man, Bloomberg prefers drive and hard work over academic achievements in his employees.
Be genuine
• “There is a characteristic that all good leaders have and it’s that they’re genuine. Will this person be with you in the trenches, go over the top, or will they stay back and say, “You go?”
• Have a read of the full article in Business Insider UK.
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