After working with billionaires and government officials, the speaker learned three things: always say "let me find out" instead of no, verify everything before responding. Overnight success is a myth; breakthroughs come from countless sleepless nights. Ratan Tata said slow success builds character, fast success builds ego.
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We deal with a lot of powerful people. People in government, CEOs, billionaires, celebrity kind. And what we learn from these people, you are being tested constantly. They are used to people doing what they say and having no excuses. I've learned to not say no. We'll say, "Let me find out." If I don't know the answer, if I don't think it's possible, I'll say I don't think it's possible, but not at the beginning because I will double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check to see if there's any way around getting to a solution. Another thing I've learned, you can't get an overnight success. Everybody just dreams of these people creating an app and boom, the next day you have a billion dollars. It really doesn't work that way. Nobody ever understands the thousands and thousands of sleepless nights most entrepreneurs have before they hit that overnight success. It reminds me of this saying that "ratan tata," that slow success builds character, fast success builds ego. Just something to keep in mind.