{"id":41271,"date":"2023-10-20T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/10-talks-by-world-changing-millionaires-and-billionaires-to-inspire-your-success-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:12:50","slug":"10-talks-by-world-changing-millionaires-and-billionaires-to-inspire-your-success-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/10-talks-by-world-changing-millionaires-and-billionaires-to-inspire-your-success-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"10 talks by world-changing millionaires and billionaires to inspire your success &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure>                             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Orprah-Winfrey-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Orprah Winfrey\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">                               Screenshot: YouTube                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The tradition of the \u201ccommencement addresses\u201d in the United States means that&nbsp;big universities invite phenomenal talent to share secrets of life and entrepreneurship with graduating classes.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most revered&nbsp;individuals in global business have taken to stages over the past decade to share exactly how they reached their levels of success, and any business owner with a laptop has access to hundreds of hours of these top secrets.<\/p>\n<p>There are countless examples out there, but here\u2019s some key advice from 10 millionaires \u2013 and billionaires \u2013 on propelling your business forward.<\/p>\n<h3>Apple founder Steve Jobs \u2013 Stanford, 2005<\/h3>\n<p>In 2005, Jobs addressed a graduating class at Stanford about the importance of following your interests in the moment in order to create the best projects later on \u2013 it was a calligraphy class he took in college years that he credited with the design of fonts on the Mac.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something \u2013 your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.&nbsp;<em>Because believing the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path, and that will make all the difference.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UF8uR6Z6KLc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Virgin founder Richard Branson, 2013<\/h3>\n<p>In a piece published on LinkedIn, Branson speaks to the importance of not thinking about education simply as school and university classes, and letting your entrepreneurship be driven by your interests.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cVirgin\u2019s expansion into so many different areas is borne out of my insatiable curiosity to enjoy new experiences and pursue fresh challenges\u2026 There probably won\u2019t be another time in your life when you have such freedom of opportunity. Grasp it with both hands. If you can\u2019t find an opening that fits what you want to do, why not try to create one yourself? We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington \u2013 Sarah Lawrence, 2011<\/h3>\n<p>Huffington speaks to the importance of having faith that other people\u2019s kindness \u2013 the \u2018fairytale animals\u201d of the world \u2013 will help you along your business journey, and you should be grateful to them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cI remember one of the low points in my life was when my second book was rejected by 37 publishers. You might have thought that by rejection 25 I would have thought \u2018you know, maybe there\u2019s something wrong here. Maybe I should be looking at a different career. Instead I remember walking down St James Street in London and seeing a Barclays Bank there. So I walked in and with a lot of chutzpah and just about nothing else I asked the manager for a loan. And that\u2019s what made it possible for me to keep it together for another 13 rejections, until my book was finally published. I still send the manager, Ian Bell, a Christmas card, and I think of him as a helpful animal in a fairytale. So remember, throughout your life, there will be helpful animals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ggMgAoSQpbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos \u2013 Princeton, 2010<\/h3>\n<p>Founder of the retail giant told students six years ago to make sure they exhibited kindness in their future projects, instead of just relying on natural aptitudes and savvy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cCleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy \u2013 they\u2019re given, after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you\u2019re not careful \u2013 and if you do, it will probably be at the detriment of your choices.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vBmavNoChZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Oprah Winfrey \u2013 Harvard University, 2013<\/h3>\n<p>The talk show queen and businesswoman told Harvard\u2019s class of 2013 to embrace the fact that the more ambitious your life or business\u2019s work, the more likely failure will come at some point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter how far you might rise, at some point, you\u2019re bound to stumble. Because if you\u2019re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar, if you\u2019re constantly pushing yourself higher higher, the law of averages predicts that at some point you will fall. When you do, remember this \u2013 there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GMWFieBGR7c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft founder Bill Gates \u2013 Harvard University, 2007<\/h3>\n<p>Gates considers why enthusiasm for tech products seems to translate so much more readily than for charitable efforts, and begs entrepreneurs to think about ways of communicating a message of caring through new technologies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cYou can\u2019t get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact. The way to do that is another complex question. Still \u2013 I\u2019m optimistic. Yes, inequity has been with us forever. But the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever. They are new. They can help us make the most of our caring.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPx5N6Lh3sw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Actor and producer Amy Poehler- Harvard University, 2011<\/h3>\n<p>Poehler credits her success in the entertainment industry with the talented people she surrounds herself with, and recommends this approach for successful enterprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cAll I can tell you today is what I have learned. What I have discovered as a person in this world. And that is this: you can\u2019t do it alone. As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people\u2019s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7N_L_pu74k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg \u2013 Harvard University, 2004<\/h3>\n<p>Sandberg explains how the reluctance of people to be honest in life and business can stop growth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cOften the truth is sacrificed to conflict avoidance, or by the time we use the truth we\u2019ve used so many caveats and preambles that the message totally gets lost. So as you ask each other for the truth and other people, can you elicit in it simple and clear language? And when you speak your truth, can you use simple and clear language?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZKII4AwLKkU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Google founder Larry Page \u2013 University of Michigan, 2009<\/h3>\n<p>Page told a group of graduates about how the initial idea that led to Google was prompted by a vivid dream when he was 23 \u2013 a reminder to entrepreneurs to seize moments of inspiration without knowing where they might lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cI had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and\u2026I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work\u2026Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn\u2019t even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qFb2rvmrahc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Hollywood director Martin Scorcese \u2013 Tisch School of Arts, 2014<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Talking about the idea of a creative vision, Scorcese told a crowd to keep your ideas insulated from a world that can tear you down and find beauty in the struggle to succeed with big projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"td_quote_box td_box_center\">\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s the work of the old masters\u2013whoever your masters are\u2013really that remind you that you have to be singular, inflexible, unyielding in your own work so that even the struggle, that very struggle to achieve becomes its own reward.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106196480\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally published on Smart Company.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Facebook,<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenshot: YouTube The tradition of the \u201ccommencement addresses\u201d in the United States means that&nbsp;big universities invite phenomenal talent to share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}