John WetmoreSales and Scaling Coach for Small Business and Corporations. Keynote Speaker. Podcast Host. Life Insurance Leader.

Steve Jobs: How to be a WINNER

Name: Steve Jobs: How to be a WINNER
Uploaded: 2024-07-10T19:24:54+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: John Wetmore
Description: In this brief dialogue, Speaker A emphasizes that success requires proactive behavior—picking up the phone, asking for opportunities, and embracing the…

10 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A emphasizes that success requires proactive behavior—picking up the phone, asking for opportunities, and embracing the possibility of failure. He argues that fear of failure limits progress. Speaker B adds that achieving goals also depends on having a clear vision and the ability to maintain intense focus, noting that he was fortunate to have people who allowed him to stay true to himself while building his business. Together, they present a motivational perspective on entrepreneurship that stresses taking decisive action, tolerating setbacks, and sustaining focus despite external misunderstandings.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You got to act and you've got to be willing to fail. You've got to be willing to crash and burn, you know, with people on the phone, with starting a company, with whatever. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.
See, it'd be very hard for people to tune others out to achieve the things they want when people don't have the same vision as you have or understand your vision. I was very fortunate where people let me be me. And when I was focused on building this business, I didn't get a lot of slack for my level of focus.