A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.
The opportunities that everyone cannot see are the real opportunities.
Find the right people, not the best people.
A great opportunity is often hard to be explained clearly; things that can be explained clearly are often not the best opportunities.
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then be different from your peers.
A leader should have higher endurance and ability to accept and embrace failure.
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.
30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.
If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Don't even trust that you are able to unify what everyone is thinking; it is impossible
Always let your employees come to work with a smile.
Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.
Even if your competitor is still small in size or weak, you should take him seriously and treat him as a giant. Likewise, even if your competitor is massive in size, you shouldn't regard yourself as a weakling.
A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.
Rather than having small smart tricks to get by, focus on holding on and persevering.
Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right?
