True. I’ve seen a few comments from successful folks(the one that was most memorable was the founders of Home Depot) saying that you need to gamble to be successful. In that particular case, it basically involved calling his boss an idiot and completely rearranging the business model of hardware stores. Now obviously, they wouldn’t have founded Home Depot without doing that, but I was thinking as I read this “For every one of you, there’s probably a thousand folks who got fired and a hundred who ran the business into the ground”. It’s a good guide for being extraordinarily successful, but by definition that can’t be done ordinarily.
True. I’ve seen a few comments from successful folks(the one that was most memorable was the founders of Home Depot) saying that you need to gamble to be successful. In that particular case, it basically involved calling his boss an idiot and completely rearranging the business model of hardware stores. Now obviously, they wouldn’t have founded Home Depot without doing that, but I was thinking as I read this “For every one of you, there’s probably a thousand folks who got fired and a hundred who ran the business into the ground”. It’s a good guide for being extraordinarily successful, but by definition that can’t be done ordinarily.