How to Be More COMPETITIVE | 8 Minutes ft. Kevin O'Leary and Beyonce

I like to be very competitive. I'm competitive. Competitive. I'm always competitive. We will compete. Competitive. You have to compete against other people. Competing with yourself. When you're competing, you want to win. Hello, Believe Nation! Today we're going to talk about how you can be more competitive. As usual, if you hear something that really resonates with you, make sure to leave it in the comments below and put it in quotes so other people can be inspired as well. When it comes to winning in business, I like to be very competitive. I like to pour boiling oil over my competitors. And think every day, how can I kill them? Because that is the war of business. Ultimately, I want my shareholders to make more money than my competitors, and that's very healthy. So I think the DNA of a business has to be, how do you make money? How do you spend your time making money for your shareholders? And you're nobody as an entrepreneur until you've made money for somebody else. I'm competitive really with myself, right? Honestly, like, every time I start an album, I go and watch all of my performances and I try to figure out, okay, what is it that I could have done better or what worked? And really, my references, I go back to myself and try to better myself. So I'm really tough on me more so than, than anyone else. I'm not a competitive person that walks in thinking about other people and how I can compete with them, or especially not my husband. Everybody wants to compete. I think it's knowing how to compete. And also, you know, true competitive instinct really kicks in when you're down. You know, like I said, a lot of people are competitive at things that are rolling their way, and, you know, things that they're naturally good at. But it takes a true competitive person when things are down like this to really step up to the plate and go out after it. I've never seen a guy, you know, be able to flip the switch from loose and laid back to wanting to absolutely kill somebody, uh, like he does, you know. And, and not only does he just want to win, but he wants to just bury you. It's a story I tell many people. It's a par 4 there at Wentworth, and I hit it about maybe 2 feet, a foot and a half behind the hole, and he hit it on the back edge, and he putted it down and damn near made his putt for birdie. And so I threw him his ball back, and I just expected him to give me my putt, and he turned his back to me and started facing the, the 12th tee. So I looked around and there was about 5,000 or 3,000 people in the gallery and I didn't know what to do. And so I started to mark my ball and I put my ball down and I turned around and I said, Tiger. And he says, he turned around, he says, what? I said, you'd give me this at home, wouldn't you? You would make me putt that at home? I want to make sure I'm going to remember that next week. And he looked at me and he says, well, you haven't won a hole yet, have you? And I'm like, whoa. Alrighty, fine. Yeah! So I putted it in, he's laughing on the back of the green. So I finally won my first hole. I walked back to him and I said, let me tell you something, pal. I said, if you ever make me putt a putt like that again, our friendship is over. It's hard to explain. I guess it's just sport because it's what we do. That's what we we have to do in order to win. I'm not there in a tournament to, to have fun and talk to my buddies and enjoy being around them. I'm there to win the tournament. Now, after the tournament's over with, hey, let's go party, let's go have a great time. You know, it's very important for me. I'm always competitive player, and not just in the games. I'm in the training, I'm like that. In a home with my sister, with my mom, with my nephews, I'm always try to competitive hard and try to win. I'm like that, you know, I'm not, I'm not, I never change because I like, I like this, I like what I do, I like my life, I'm happy person. So competitive is part of my life. So in Madeira, in Madrid, in England, I always want to win, always competitive person. So it's part of me. I was developing an unhealthy contempt for Adidas, you say, or maybe it was healthy. I despised them. Yeah. I'm curious what you make of the competition right now. Adidas is coming back from a soft patch and there are upstarts like Under Armour that are making headway on athletes and on sales. Well, I think I'm sort of a worrier by nature, and so everybody is a concern, but I'm still the same as I was before. I know they asked me in one of the rare TV interviews from 25 years ago if I wanted to meet the president of Reebok. And I said, no, I says, I don't know him, I don't like him, and I don't want to like him. And I still feel that way about the competition. What about Under Armour in the U.S. market? Is there one of them? They're one of them. There are lots of them that we compete with then. But believe me, we will compete competitive. If I tell Jim from Cousins Maine Lobster— I don't have his picture here, but, you know, I talked about him before. If I tell him one little thing about the guy he used to compete with on the hockey team— Jim was a semi-professional hockey player and had some injury or something in the minor leagues, if I'm telling that right. But anyway, his archenemy on And the other team was a guy named Luke. What do you think happened? Luke's from Maine, Jim's from Maine, Luke went into the lobster business. All I have to do to double sales is say, "Hey, did you hear Luke opened another restaurant?" Talk about competitive spirit, he's ready to kill. He doesn't stop working. He hates the idea that somebody might beat him at a game. It's his DNA and his partner Saban's the same way. All I have to do is tell Grace and Lace, who makes beautiful lacy socks and shawls, and my most successful business by far in terms of making money. And what do I have to do to get them going? Hardly anything. All I have to do is say, God, got a big check from my cousins today. Do you know I'll get a check from her like within the week? A bigger check. They're winning. We're more successful. Why? I didn't say compete with my other— that's the way they're wired, competitive. You get an entrepreneur who doesn't feel the heat of competition, he's not going to be good on his feet. She's not going to come to the fore when she really needs it. That competitive spirit drives you through all the things that don't make any common sense in life. That's what it does. How much more do you need to be at your absolute best? For me, you don't know when you're gonna get there. I think the key thing is to train hard, and you definitely need competition. You definitely need races in, because I've learned over the years that training helps you, but you have to compete against other people. Who are of a higher level to help build you up and make you know what else you need to work on in training. I think anyone, if they're smart and resourceful, can like use the internet and use the resources that, you know, that they have or that they create for themselves to do great things, whatever the magnitude of greatness is for you. You know, just because I'm on a stage or because I have a platform and wrote a book doesn't mean that your level of greatness is like any less than mine. I think that's important for people to understand because we live in a culture where celebrities are idolized, and I talk in Girlboss about being your own idol and competing with yourself. I do my best work when I compete with myself. You have to win here. That's the bottom line, is what have you done lately? You know, we were able to accomplish a lot of good things early on. We've been in the postseason every year so far, but the bottom line is when you're competing, you want to win. I mean, that's why you're out there. Finishing second, finishing third, going to the postseason is not good enough. And I think everyone should have that mentality when you go into a season. You win a championship or it doesn't mean anything. Have you always had that kind of mentality, even before you got to New York, or did it— No question. No, I was younger, you know, I always wanted— my dad used to beat me at everything we did. He wouldn't let you win? No, no, he wouldn't let me win. So now I don't let anyone else win. So, uh, You know, I've always had that mentality. It's pointless from my point of view if you're competing and you don't win. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'd love to know what you thought of the video. Did you enjoy it? Did you not like it? Which clip was your favorite? What did you learn from it? How are you gonna now be more competitive in your business, in your life? Leave it down in the comments below. I'm gonna join in the discussion. Thank you guys so much for watching. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you soon.