To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.
One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.
You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.
Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.
If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.
Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.
The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.
Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
So I've seen life as one long learning process.
Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.
Doing good is good for business.
If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish. That's a critical attribute of a leader.
Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.
With all my employees, I listen to them, trust in them, believe in them, respect them and let them have a go! I never believe I know better than they do and have been fortunate over the years to build up a very strong management team whom I can trust and take advice from.
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?
We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.
All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.
Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.
Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.
Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
