Work
Anyone who has ever built a business will know how much hard work is involved in just getting it off of the ground. It is like trying to get a rocket up. It takes an immense amount of fuel to get off of the ground and through the atmosphere.
Once it is up and running you can breathe a sign of relief and put your feet up … oh no wait!
Alfie Best self-made multi-millionaire and chairman of Europe’s largest park home operator Wyldecrest Parks says that the reason he is successful is not because he is more intelligent or more astute than other people but that while they are prepared to work one hour, he will work three.
And he is not alone.
“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour workweeks and you’re putting in 100 hour workweeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing, you know that you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”
Elon Musk
Persistence
Persistence is another trait which this people have in abundance. We are all able to be persistent to a degree. We can all pull an all-nighter occasionally if we need to complete a project. To work 100 hours week in and week out that takes the kind of persistence most of us mere mortals cannot summon.
Most businesspeople will be contented once they reach a level where they consider they have “made it” or at least that they have achieved their goals.
“I know I’m fortunate to live an extraordinary life — I’ve been knighted, met the most extraordinary people and attended the most amazing events — but there’s never been a point in my career in which I’ve felt I’ve ‘made it.’”
Richard Branson
I wonder if most of us can even conceive of the goals that the super-successful set. Richard Branson and Elon Musk have both just been to space!!! Can you even imagine putting that on your goals list? To achieve this these entrepreneurs have had to persist against the people who said it couldn’t be done, against the fact that the technology was not there to achieve it when they set their goal and even against COVID-19.
