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  • Are there a couple of pieces of advice you would give to someone who's just maybe starting their career and looking at this fast changing business environment,

  • asking how they're gonna maintain their...?

  • Yeah, work hard.

  • There's no such thing as success without hard work.

  • So some people have this quick... get-rich-quick notion.

  • I've never seen it.

  • I mean, maybe... it's like a casino, maybe it happened, but it's not the normal way.

  • Second, you're gonna spend your life learning.

  • You know, I read four or five newspapers every morning.

  • I read tons of stuff.

  • I read everything that people send me.

  • You're gonna learn.

  • When you go out on the road, learn, learn, learn, you learn from clients, learn from competitors.

  • You learn... when we meet with small business, you're always learning.

  • And that could be a small thing that someone said, why do you do this?

  • He said, my God, we should do that differently.

  • So a very large thing.

  • Even innovation sometimes is not an Aha, it's a lot of little things on top of each other.

  • The iphone was 3G, you know, the glass, the semiconductors, the batteries.

  • It wasn't one thing that created an iphone.

  • So learn, learn, learn, and treat people the way you wanna be treated.

  • You know, like, have respect for people and be willing to change your job a little bit.

  • Don't worry about your income level.

  • You know, people like, I got... I take that job.

  • I love the people, but it's less money.

  • You know what? Sometimes it's the absolute right thing to do.

  • So be a little bit of flexible in the job you take and try.

  • You know, in your lifetime, you should be prepared to do a bunch of different things.

  • We tell people it's your job to take care of your mind, your body, your spirit, your soul, your friends, your family,

  • and you need to do that at any level.

  • Because if you don't, you know, you probably won't be a particularly productive worker.

  • We can help, but we can't do it for you.

  • We can provide opportunities, but we can't do it for you.

  • -Second, you know... -Wait, so what does that mean?

  • You want people to basically say, I'm gonna leave. I gotta...

  • Yes, you gotta go take care of your kids baseball game.

  • If you don't feel well, you need a spiritual getaway,

  • You should do those things and it could be done.

  • Most of the people in my life who are always frenzied, they can't get it done.

  • I always tell them, it's you, it's not the company.

  • A lot of people doing that exact exact same job and they're always at peace and at ease and they have their family time.

  • You know, if you're a male or you just had a bunch of babies, you know, maybe you can't play golf every day in the weekends.

  • Maybe you gotta just cut back on other things, and focus on that... you can't give kids, for example, quality time only.

  • You don't get the quality without quantity.

  • You know, and I tell people, so you have to arrange your life.

  • So it works for you in a way that you're taking care of your health.

  • Like, when I go travel overseas, I schedule exercise time.

  • Management is get it done, follow up, discipline, planning,

  • and now just facts, fact, facts, and now is get the right people in the room, you know, kill the bureaucracy,

  • all these various things gonna get done, which if you don't, you won't be particularly good.

  • But the the real keys to leadership aren't just doing that or making done

  • but having people who want to work at the place.

  • So you might want to work for me if you trust me, if you know what I care about is the client, the country something different.

  • If the person is selfish, you know, blames you and takes the credit, you're not gonna wanna work there.

  • So to me, humility, openness, fairness, being authentic, that's what creates leadership.

  • Not the smartest person in the room or the hardest working person in the room.

  • And you can, you know, if you made a list of good CEOs, it's not their charisma, it's not always their brain power,

  • but you won't be a good CEO without that because people want to work there.

  • And so to me, that is a whole different way of making sure you manage it.

Are there a couple of pieces of advice you would give to someone who's just maybe starting their career and looking at this fast changing business environment,

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