Harvard Grant Study:ssä havaittiin 5 tärkeintä tekijää, joista onnellinen elämä koostuu.
Tässäpä resepti onnelliseen elämään: Ripaus rakkautta, merkityksellistä työtä ja kasvamista keittiöpsykologien oppeja noudattaen = onnellisuus.
1. Rakkaus, mitä ikinä tarkoittaakin elämässäsi, on tärkeintä
Tärkeintä on rakkaus. Tämä vanha viisaus pitää paikkansa: Tutkimuksen mukaan rakkaus on onnellisuuden avain ja tie täyteläiseen elämään. Harvardin psykiatri George Vaillantin mukaan rakkaudella on kaksi puolta: a) Rakkaus
b) Opettele elämään elämää, jossa et karkota pois rakkautta
"Onnellisuus on vaunut, joita hevonen vetää. Hevonen on rakkaus."
2. Älä pidä tärkeimpänä rahaa äläkä valtaa
Vallalla, uralla ja varallisuudella on jotain merkitystä onnellisuuden kanssa, mutta ne ovat kuitenkin vain osa elämän kokonaisuudessa. Silloin tällöin ihmisen elämässä raha ja valta nousevat pintaan ja varsinkin julkkisten menestystä ja onnellisuutta arvostellaan rahallisen menestyksen tai aseman perusteella. Todellisuudessa, kun katsomme elämää kokonaisuutena, niin tärkeintä ei ole valta eikä raha.
3. Hyväksy, että sinullakin on mahdollisuus tulla onnelliseksi. Lähtökohdilla ei ole merkitystä.
Tämä on tärkeä havainto. Historia ei määrittele sitä, miten onnellisia meistä tulee. Eräs tutkimukseen osallistuneista henkilöistä aloitti elämänsä todella haastavista tilanteista ja yritti jopa itsemurhaa. Epäonnistui siinäkin. Yllätys yllätys: loppujen lopuksi hänestä tuli yksi onnellisimmista koehenkilöistä. Miten se voi olla mahdollista? Tutkijat havaitsivat, että hän käytti koko elämänsä siihen, että hän halusi ymmärtää ja jakaa paremmin ja enemmän rakkautta.
4. Mikä boogie? Sillä on merkitystä. Olet onnellinen, jos olet töissä hyvällä sykkeellä ja rakastat sitä mitä teet. Sama pätee ihmissuhteisiin ja muihin elämän osa-alueisiin.
Tutkimuksen mukaan suurin mielihyvän lähde elämässä ovat ihmissuhteet. Duunissa rahan tai maineen sijasta etusijalle nousee itse hommista saatu tyydytys. Olen kirjassanikin todennut tämän saman, mitä tutkimus nyt vahvistaa: Jos sä teet jotain hommaa 8 tuntia joka päivä, sun on parasta nauttia siitä. Sama pätee loppuihin tunteihin. Nauti koti-elämästä. Nauti yöelämästä. Onnellisuus, ja elämän eri osa-alueista nauttiminen ovat synkronissa keskenään. Aika loogista. Mitä enemmän nautit elämästäsi ja saat mielihyvää kokonaisvaltaisesti, niin sitä onnellisempi olet. Haasteet työssä, arvostus parisuhteessa, onnistumisen elämykset, niistä on hyvä elämä tehty.
Case: 158: “What I am doing is not work; it is fun. I know what real work is like.”
5. Haasteet ja niiden myötä opitut asiat lisäävät onnellisuutta.
"Kasva isoksi, älä aikuiseksi" -lause ei sittenkään päde. Aikuisuus on sitä, että absoluuttinen muuttuu suhteelliseksi. Epäkypsä muuttuu kypsäksi ja huomioi muutkin ihmiset. Narsistista tulee toiset huomioiva (I recognize I still have work in progress). Kasvaminen vaikuttaa myös siihen, kuinka selviydyt elämäsi haasteista. Meillä jokaisella on selviytymismekanismeja ja keinoja, joilla suhtaudumme vastoinkäymisiin. Esimerkiksi voit olla onnellisempi, jos osaat purkaa argessiot sporttailemalla tappelun sijasta. Elämäntaitojen hallitsemisella on suuri merkitys onnellisuudessa ja hyvinvoinnissa. Mitä laajemmin osaat ymmärtää ihmisyyttä ja mitä monipuolisemmin osaat huomioida ja hyväksyä muut, sitä onnellisempi olet.
"But it turned out that the lives were too big, too weird, too full of subtleties and contradictions to fit any easy conception of “successful living.”"
"Freud dismissed the very idea of “normality” as “an ideal fiction” and famously remarked that he hoped to transform “hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”
"“Neurotic” defenses are common in “normal” people. These include intellectualization (mutating the primal stuff of life into objects of formal thought); dissociation (intense, often brief, removal from one’s feelings); and repression, which, Vaillant says, can involve “seemingly inexplicable naïveté, memory lapse, or failure to acknowledge input from a selected sense organ.” The healthiest, or “mature,” adaptations include altruism, humor, anticipation (looking ahead and planning for future discomfort), suppression (a conscious decision to postpone attention to an impulse or conflict, to be addressed in good time), and sublimation (finding outlets for feelings, like putting aggression into sport, or lust into courtship)."
Karmeita stooreja: "When his sister died, he sent her autopsy report to the Grant Study office, with a cool note saying that he expected it would be “an item of news.” He reported another family death this way: “I received an inheritance from my mother.” "
“What I am doing is not work; it is fun. I know what real work is like.”
"The predictive importance of childhood temperament also diminishes over time: shy, anxious kids tend to do poorly in young adulthood, but by age 70, are just as likely as the outgoing kids to be “happy-well.”"
"“The happiness books say, ‘Try happiness. You’ll like it a lot more than misery’—which is perfectly true,” he told them. But why, he asked, do people tell psychologists they’d cross the street to avoid someone who had given them a compliment the previous day?
In fact, Vaillant went on, positive emotions make us more vulnerable than negative ones. One reason is that they’re future-oriented. Fear and sadness have immediate payoffs—protecting us from attack or attracting resources at times of distress. Gratitude and joy, over time, will yield better health and deeper connections—but in the short term actually put us at risk. That’s because, while negative emotions tend to be insulating, positive emotions expose us to the common elements of rejection and heartbreak."
"But why do countries with the highest self-reports of subjective well-being also yield the most suicides? How is it that children are often found to be a source of “negative affect” (sadness, anger)—yet people identify children as their greatest source of pleasure?
The questions are unresolved, in large part because of method. The psychologist Ed Diener, at the University of Illinois, has helped lay the empirical foundation for positive psychology, drawing most recently on data from the Gallup World Poll, which interviewed a representative sample of 360,000 people from 145 countries. “You can say a lot of general things from these data that you could never say before,” Diener says. “But many of them are relatively shallow. People who go to church report more joy. But if you ask why, we don’t know."
“Their lives were too human for science, too beautiful for numbers, too sad for diagnosis and too immortal for bound journals.)"
“I sometimes wondered if another motivation for the study of these lives,” says Henry Vaillant, was “to learn how to live his own life right. As if by interviewing all these very successful people, he would get the knack. And of course in many ways, he has the knack.”
"Vaillant’s own work provides an uncanny description of his strengths and struggles. “On the bright side,” he has written, “reaction formation allows us to care for someone else when we wish to be cared for ourselves.” But in intimate relationships, he continued, the defense “rarely leads to happiness for either party.”
“with the passage of years, old wars become more adventurous and less dangerous.”
Vastailin yrittäjyyskasvatukseen liittyvään kyselyyn ja yksi kysymys oli: Tiivistä yrittäjyys kolmeen lauseeseen. Oli todella haastava nostaa nopeaan 3 lausetta. Teki mieli vastata tuhat lausetta. Yrittäjyys on tavoitteellista elämää. Menestyminen, yrittäjyys ja sisäinen yrittäjyys sisältää paljon samaa ideologiaa. Maailmalla on paljon menestyneitä ihmisiä. Olen koonnut tähän ideoita ja ajatuksia omista kirjoistani ja arvostamiltani henkilöiltä.
Menestyjän vinkit sopivat mihin tahansa tavoitteellisen elämän elämisen ajatuksiin ja sisältävät paljon oppia ja viisautta. Keräsin nyt kokoon oman top 300 listani.
1. If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
2. Anna unelmillesi mahdollisuus toteutua. - Ilkka Lavas
3. Vapaus. Vastuu. Mahdollisuus. Olla oman elämänsä pomo. - Ilkka Lavas
4. "Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t." - Anonyymi (kiitos Sani Leinolle nostosta) 5. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
- Peter Drucker
6. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” - Vince Lombardi
7. Example is not the main thing in influencing other people; it’s the only thing. – Abraham Lincoln
8. All of my friends were doing babysitting jobs. I wanted money without the job. – Adam Horwitz
9. The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. – Adam Osborne
10. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Agatha Christie
11. Ole taistelija. - Ilkka O. Lavas
12. Ole utelias ja kyseenalaista - Ilkka O. Lavas
13. Uskalla unelmoida, päätä aikataulu. Menestyjät ovat unelmoijia, joilla on aikataulu. - Ilkka O. Lavas 14. Hyväksy, että sinussa(kin) on kaikki ainekset menestymiseen. Ilkka O. Lavas
15. Älä nirsoile, ole ahkera - Ilkka O. Lavas
16. Tiedä mitä haluat. - Ilkka O. Lavas
17. Sun täytyy varoo mitä sä haluut, sillä sä saatat saada sen. Andy McCoy
18. Nuku ja arvosta lepoa. Menestyjän elämä on tasapainoista. - Ilkka O. Lavas
19. Jos olet kusessa, kilauta kaverille. Ilkka O. Lavas
20. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
21. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
- Thomas Edison
22. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
- Albert Einstein
23. “As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
- Donald Trump
24. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
- Winston Churchill
25. ”Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration.”
- Thomas Edison
26. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain 27. “The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
- Vince Lombardi
28. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”
- Napoleon Hill
29. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
- Bill Cosby
30. “Success is not what you have, but who you are.”
- Bo Bennet
31. First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will. – Aleksandr Lebed
32. Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneur will and spirit of the American people, somewhere else. – Allen West
33. One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide
34. Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser’s excuse. – Andrew Fashion
35. Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Anon
37. If you’re not living life on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. – Anonymous
38. “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t so you can spend the rest of your life like most people cant.”
- Warren G. Tracy’s student
39. “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
- Corneille
40. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
- Mark Twain 41. After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. – Aristotle
42. The road to success is always under construction. – Arnold Palmer
43. We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks
44. Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. – Arthur Erickson
45. Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games. – Babe Ruth
46. “There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.” - Christopher Morley
47. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
- Napoleon Hill
48. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Albert Schweitzer 49. “What is not started will never get finished”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.”
- Malcolm Forbes
51. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
- Jim Rohn
52. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake- you can’t learn anything from being perfect.”
- Adam Osborne
53. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” - John C. Maxwell
54. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” - Ralph Nader
55. “Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius
56. Yrittäjä on kuin huippu-urheilija. Ei huippu-urheilijakaan tee huippu-urheilijan töitä vaan on huippu-urheilija. Koko elämällään, joka hetki. Samalla tavalla ei yrittäjäkään tee työtä vaan hän elää yrittäjyyttä. - Ilkka O. Lavas
57. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
58. I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. – Barbara Corcoran
59. Everything started as nothing. – Ben Weissenstein
60. The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli
61. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin
62. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
63. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby
64. Be nice to geek’s, you’ll probably end up working for one. – Bill Gates
65. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
66. Success is not in what you have, but who you are. – Bo Bennet
67. For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. – Bo Bennett
68. If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers. – Bo Bennett
69. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. – Booker T. Washington
70. If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. – Brian Tracy
71. Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are asking, What’s in it for me? – Brian Tracy
72. The longer you’re not taking action the more money you’re losing. – Carrie Wilkerson
73. If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions. – Catherine Cook 74. Yrittäjä joka ei tee virheitä, ei tee varmasti muutakaan. - Ilkka O. Lavas
75. I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. – Charles Maurice
76. Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey. – Charles S. Lauer
77. A bad workman blames his tools. – Chinese Proverb
78. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
79. Norsun voi syödä palasina. Vuoren voi siirtää lapiollinen kerrallaan.
80. Failing to plan is planning to fail. – Chinese Proverb
81. The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese Proverb
82. When you go to buy, don’t show your silver. – Chinese Proverb
83. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley
84. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero
85. If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. – Claude McDonald
86. The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis
87. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius
88. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Corneille
89. Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. – Dale Carnegie 90. Do things with passion, or not at all. - Anonymous
91. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie
92. Ideas are worthless. – Dane Carlson
93. Ideoilla ei ole merkitystä, vasta toteutus luo arvon.
94. The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. – David Geffen
95. In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. – David Ogilvy
96. A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. – Daymond John
97. An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made. – Daymond John 98. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. – Derek Bok
99. As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. – Donald Trump
100. I wasn’t satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement. – Donald Trump
101. Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. – Dr. Napoleon Hill
102. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
103. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
104. Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. – E. Joseph Cossman 105. The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, ‘Go!’ – a leader says, ‘Let’s go!’. – E. M. Kelly
106. Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. – Earl Wilson
107. Teidän juttu vai meidän yhteinen juttu? Oletko messissä? - Ilkka Lavas
108. Go Big, or Go Home. – Eliza Dushku
109. Start today, not tomorrow. If anything, you should have started yesterday. – Emil Motycka
110. The biggest failure you can have in life is not trying at all. – Emil Motycka
111. Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. – Fortune Cookie
112. If you live for weekends or vacations, your shit is broken. – Gary Vaynerchuk
113. Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom. – General George Patton
114. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
115. Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg
116. He who begins many things finishes but few. – German Proverb
117. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper 118. Joskus on helpompaa tai halvempaa pyytää anteeksi kuin saada lupa. - Ilkka Lavas
119. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford
120. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. – Henry Ford
121. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night. – Henry Ford
122. Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. – Henry Ford
123. Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. – Jack Welch
124. I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch
125. If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
126. As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. – James Cash Penney
127. It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. – James Cash Penney 128. Fall seven times, stand up eight. – Japanese Proverb
129. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. – Jeff Bezos
130. Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution. – Jeffrey Gitomer
131. Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said. – Jim Rohn
132. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn
133. Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. – Jim Rohn
134. Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know. – Jim Rohn
135. Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune. – Jim Rohn
136. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn
137. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn
138. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
139. The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. – Jim Rohn
140. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place. – Jim Rohn 141. Raha ei merkitse mitään. Raha on vain tulos siitä, että olet tehnyt jotain hyvää. - Ilkka O. Lavas
142. You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills. – Jim Rohn
143. Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it. – Joe Penna
144. If you think that you are going to love something, give it a try. You’re going to kick yourself in the butt for the rest of your life if you don’t. – Joe Penna
145. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 146. What is not started will never get finished. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
147. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci
148. If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost. – Michael Dunlop
149. You’ve got to stop doing all the things that people have tried, tested, and found out don’t work. – Michael Dunlop
150. The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job. – Michael Gerber
151. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
152. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching. – Mooie 153. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill
154. All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. – Napoleon Hill
155. Anything the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill
156. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
157. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell
158. Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy 159. You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it. – John Lennon
160. Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. – Joseph A. Schumpeter
161 Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. – Kevin Harrington
162. You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. – Les Brown
163. When you cease to dream you cease to live. – Malcolm Forbes
164. I’ve been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. – Marc Andreessen
165. A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
166. If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
167. Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty
168. Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you. – Mark Cuban
169. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
170. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain
171. When I finished school, I took my entire life savings – $5,000 – and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke. – Mark Warner 172. Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. – Maya Angelou
173. I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I’m doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points. – Michael Dunlop
174. Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. – Napoleon Hill
175. Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. – Napoleon Hill
176. Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. – Napoleon Hill
177. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. – Napoleon Hill
178. If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. – Napoleon Hill
179. Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. – Napoleon Hill
180. Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it. – Napoleon Hill
181. Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual. – Natalie Clifford Barney 182. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. – Nolan Bushnell 183. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker
184. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Peter Drucker
185. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter Drucker
186. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said. – Peter F. Drucker 187. Hire character. Train skill. – Peter Schultz
188. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
189. An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
190. I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. – Ray Kurzweil
191 But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does. – Reed Hastings
192. Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson
193. I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. – Richard Branson
194. I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch
195. You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. – Robert Collier
196. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. – Robert Orben
197. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. – Robert T. Kiyosaki
198. There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. – Roger H. Lincoln
199. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. – Roy Ash 200. Start with the end in your mind. Stephen R. Covey
201. Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – Ryan Allis
202. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease. – Ryan P. Allis
203. The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. – Silvio Berlusconi
204. You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs 205. You should always stay hungry. Stay hungry, so you can eat. – Syed Balkhi
206. A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, ‘When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?’ I think it’s a great question. I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. – Ted Cruz
207. Lend your friend $20. If he doesn’t pay you back then he’s not your friend. Money well spent. – Ted Nicolas
208. My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job. – Ted Turner
209. I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better. – Terry McAuliffe
210. Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
211. Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. – Thomas Carlyle 212. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
213. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. – Thomas Edison
214. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
215. Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. – Thomas J. Watson
216. To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas J. Watson
217. Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. – Thomas J. Watson
218. Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless. – Tim Blixseth
219. The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. – Tom Hooper
220. I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It’s a little easier when you have you’re an entrepreneur. – Tory Burch
221. If you ain’t making waves, you ain’t kickin’ hard enough. – Unknown
222. Its better to own the racecourse then the race horse. – Unknown 223. You don’t buy a nice car and get rich you get rich and buy a nice car. – Unknown
224. An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. – Victor Kiam
225 The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
226. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. – W. Clement Stone
227. Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be. – W. Clement Stone 228. Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. – W. Clement Stone
229. Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone
230. Do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda, jedimestari
Do. Or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
231. I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life.. it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney
232. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney
233. I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
234. That’s a tough question; I’ve been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn’t want a 9-5 job. – Will Estes
235. Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. – Will Smith 236. Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. – Will Smith
237. Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. – William B. Sprague
238. The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James
239. Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill
240. Every choice you make has an end result. – Zig Ziglar
241. If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar
242. Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves. – Zig Ziglar
243. One can get anything if he is willing to help enough others get what they want. – Zig Ziglar
244. Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar 245. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have – Zig Ziglar
246. You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar 247. Paranna jatkuvasti. Paranna 12 kertaa vuodessa - Ilkka O. Lavas
248. Menestyjällä on ripaus uhkarohkeutta, muttei yhtään liikaa. - Ilkka O. Lavas
249. Menestyvä yrittäjä luo ympärilleen verkoston. Ilkka Lavas
250. Menestyjä uskaltaa päättää, mikä hänestä tulee isona. Ilkka O. Lavas
251. I’ve always worked very, very hard, and the harder I worked, the luckier I got. – Alan Bond 252. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
253. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”
- Richard Branson
254. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
- Oprah Winfrey 255. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates
256. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
- Warren Buffett
257. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
- Jeff Bezos
258. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got! – Alan Scott
259. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein 260. Älä jumiudu yhteen juttuun. Ilkka O. Lavas 261. Pidä huolta osaamisestasi. - Ilkka O. Lavas
262. Osta enemmän arpoja
Pysäyttämätön ostaa enemmän arpoja, sillä onnistumisen todennäköisyys lisääntyy, kun lisää mahdollisuuksia onnistua. - Ilkka O. Lavas
263. Asiakkaan menestyminen ykkösajatuksena - Eero Lehti 264. Toimi kun on aika toimia. Ilkka O. Lavas
265. Elämä on lupauksia, pidä niistä kiinni. Ilkka O. Lavas
266. Palkkaa parhaita - Ilkka O. Lavas
267. Kerää ympärillesi kasvua haluavia osaajia. Ilkka O. Lavas
268. Benchmarkkaa ja vertaa yli totuttujen rajojen. Ilkka O. Lavas
269. Myy kun on aika myydä. Ilkka O. Lavas
270. Katso eri näkökulmista. Kun jokin asia tuntuu liian suurelta, voin siirtyä katsomaan sitä pilvenpiirtäjäperspektiivistä. Voin siirtää itseni mielikuvituksen avulla lentokoneeseen tai vaikka asiakkaani asemaan. - Ilkka O. Lavas 271. Uskalla priorisoida ja tunnista se, mikä on tärkeintä - Ilkka O. Lavas
272. Kehitä osaamista. Ilkka O. Lavas
273. Tarkkaile kehitystä ja muita, jotta pysyisit nopeana. Ilkka O. Lavas
274. Luo menestyvä ekosysteemi. Ole epäitsekäs ja epämustasukkainen. Ilkka O. Lavas
275. Treenaa fyysistä kuntoasi. Terve sielu terveessä ruumiissa performoi parhaiten. - Ilkka O. Lavas 276. Elä hetkessä, mutta pidä katse tulevaisuudessa - Ilkka O. Lavas
277. Elämä on peli, pelaa se. - Ilkka O. Lavas
278. Aseta mitattavia tavoitteita. Ilkka O. Lavas
279. Ilmaise omistajatavoitteesi - Ilkka O. Lavas
280. Raha on väline, ei palkinto - Ilkka O. Lavas
281. Elä tässä hetkessä. Ilkka O. Lavas 283. Luontainen yrittäjä on onnellinen, sillä hän uskoo unelmiensa kauneuteen. - Ilkka O. Lavas
284. Luontainen yrittäjä on se, joka näkee mahdollisuudet, ennenkuin niistä tulee ilmeisiä. - Ilkka O. Lavas
285. Luontaista yrittäjää ei kunnioiteta siitä, mitä hän sai. Häntä kunnioitetaan siitä mitä hän antoi. Ilkka O. Lavas
286. Luontainen yrittäjä on töissä 24 tuntia, eikä se edes tunnu työltä. Ilkka O. Lavas
287. Luontainen yrittäjä ei tee työtä, hän elää. Ilkka O. Lavas
288. Pitkän tähtäimen tulos mitataan merkityksen synnyttämisellä. Ilkka O. Lavas 289. Jokainen on innostunut välillä. Yksi on 30 minuuttia, toinen 30 päivää, mutta hän joka on innostunut 30 vuotta, menestyy elämässään. - Ilkka O. Lavas
290. Yksikään yrittäjä ei ole menestynyt ilman innostusta. Ilkka O. Lavas
291. Tappio ei ole virheistä pahin. Olla yrittämättä on pahin. Ilkka O. Lavas
292. Arvokkainta maan päällä ei ole raha. Ilkka O. Lavas
293. Yrittäjä hyödyntää mitättömiltä tuntuvat asiat, saadakseen aikaan mahdottomia. Ilkka O. Lavas 294. Perinnön jättäminen maailmalle on yrittäjän palkinnoista suurin. Ilkka O. Lavas
295. Muutos on pelottavin, ja silti todennäköisin asia ihmisen elämässä. Ilkka O. Lavas
296. Moni yrittäjä saa neuvoja. Vain viisas hyödyntää niitä. Ilkka O. Lavas
297. Tyhmä yrittäjä kadehtii kilpailijansa onnea. Viisas rakentaa omaa onneansa. Ilkka O. Lavas 298. Opi kokemuksista. Myös muiden. Ilkka O. Lavas
299. Yrittäjä, oletko korvaamaton? Tökkää sormesi veteen ja katso jääkö veteen reikä kun vedät sormesi pois. Ilkka O. Lavas 300. You must unlearn what you have learned. Yoda
Andy McCoy on sanonut, että sun täytyy varoo mitä sä haluut, koska sä voit saada sen. Tämän blogin otsikko on Menestymisen ABC. Menestymisessä on kyse siitä, että hyväksymme historiamme, elämme nykyhetkessä ja niinku Andy sanoi, päätämme mitä haluamme olla tulevaisuudessa.
Olen usein esityksissäni ja kirjoissani siteerannut Andyä. Menestyminen on matka A:sta C:hen. Andy liittyy Menestymisen ABC:hen siten, että hän on hyvä esimerkki miehestä jolla on vahva historia. Andy voisi olla toisilla valinnoilla jo kuollut kuten useat rokkarit.
Menestymisessä ABC tarkoittaa:
A = missä olen ollut Historiasi, kokemuksesi ja saamasi palaute määrittelee pitkälti itsetuntosi. Kuinka paljon pidän itsestäni? Meidän pitää hyväksyä historiamme, mutta meidän ei pidä sen antaa liiaksi määrittää nykyisyyttämme (B) tai tulevaisuuttamme (C)
B = Missä olen nyt Millaisena näen itseni nyt. Millainen olen nyt? Missä olen hyvä. Mitä osaan. C = Minne haluan mennä
Millainen haluaisin olla? Millaisia ihmisiä ihailen? Esikuvat? Mitä haluaisin osata? Kenet minun pitäisi tuntea? Kolmannen kerran vielä: Sun täytyy varoo mitä sä haluut, koska sä voit saada sen.
Elämä on viiva, joka alkaa syntymästä ja loppuu kuolemaan. Toisten mielestä elämä on ympyrä. Kolmansien mielestä elämä on spiraali. En ota kantaa mikä on oikea, mutta sen voin sanoa, että olet nyt kohdassa B. Nykyisyys on B. Kohtien A ja C välillä on nykyisyys jossa olet sinä kaikkine elämän valintoinesi.
Aiotko sporttailla tänään?
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Aiotko hankkia uusia ystäviä tänään?
Aiotko kirjoitaa ylös unelmasi?
Aiotko unelmoida tänään?
Aiotko suunnitella minkälaisen tulevaisuuden (C) haluaisit itsellesi.
Elämä on valintoja. Historiaan emme voi vaikuttaa. Nykyisyydestä voimme sanoa sen, että nykyisyys on huomisen historiaa. Huomisesta tiedämme sen, että siihen voimme vaikuttaa.
Huomiseen voit vaikuttaa. Voit vaikuttaa siihen tämän päivän valinnoillasi.
Mitä aiot saada aikaiseksi vuoden loppuun mennessä? Mitä tulikaan luvattua uudenvuoden lupauksena? Loppuvuoden asioihinkin voit vielä vaikuttaa.
Tulevaisuus on käsissäsi. Päätä mitä sä haluut tai niinkuin Andy McCoy sanoisi: "Sun täytyy varoo mitä sä haluut, koska sä voit saada sen"