Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Inspiration~ Warren Buffett Shares His Most Essential Advice For Generation Y
Warren Buffett Shares His Most Essential Advice For
Generation Y
Warren Buffett assumed the
role of mentor to the youth yesterday when he gave networking and career advice
in an “Office Hours” session with Levo League, a site aimed to assist
youngsters in making their dreams come true.
The Berkshire Hathaway CEO
shared personal stories about his fear of public speaking, and notably told
women to “stop holding yourself” back.
Here’s 9 points Buffett
highlighted as some of the most important steps to follow on the path to
success:
1. Find your passion.
“Never give up searching for the job that you’re
passionate about,” he says. “Try to find the job you’d have if you were
independently rich. … Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the
people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than
that.”
2. Be careful who you admire.
“If you tell me who your heroes are, I’ll tell you
how you’re gonna turn out. It’s really important in life to have the right
heroes. I’ve been very lucky in that I’ve probably had a dozen or so major
heroes. And none of them have ever let me down. You want to hang around with
people that are better than you are. You will move in the direction of the
crowd that you associate with.”
3. Learn how to communicate effectively.
While getting his MBA from
Columbia University, Buffett revealed that he was “terrified of public
speaking,” causing him to withdraw from a Dale Carnegie class. But after
graduating he saw the ad for the course again and decided to give himself a
second chance.
“I became associated with the 30 other people in
the class. We couldn’t stand up in front of a group and say our own name. I
mean it was — we were — it was pathetic. But that class changed my life in a
big way.”
4. Develop healthy habits by studying people.
“Pick the person that has the right habits, that is
cheerful, generous, gives other people credit for what they do. Look at all of
the qualities that you admire in other people … and say to yourself, ‘Which of
those qualities can’t I have myself?’ Because you determine whether you have
them. And the truth is you can have all of them.”
5. Learn how to say “no.”
“You won’t keep control of your time, unless you
can say ‘no.’ You can’t let other people set your agenda in life.”
6. Don’t work for someone who won’t pay you fairly.
“I do very little negotiation with people. And they
do little with me, in terms of it … if I was a woman and I thought I was
getting paid considerably less than somebody else that was equal coming in,
that would bother me a lot. I probably wouldn’t even want to work there. I
mean, [if] somebody’s gonna be unfair with you, in salary, they’re probably
being unfair with you in a hundred other ways.”
7. Become involved with growing businesses.
“I mean, you want to get on a train that’s going to
go 90 miles an hour and not one that’s gonna go 30 miles an hour and you’re
gonna try to figure out how to, you know, push it along a little faster. So it
really does make a huge difference. And there are some businesses that
inherently [have] far more opportunities than others.”
8. Learn everything you can about your industry.
Buffett says he reads for
six hours every day because he believes that growing your intellectual capacity
will help you solve problems more effectively.
“I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had
read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject. “
9. Young women should seek mentors.
“These [mentoring] relationships all just evolve. I
never set out to become a mentor … It’s amazing … how the person that really
wants to do a terrific job just jumps out. There aren’t that many. You will be
perceived as exceptional and as a worthy person for a superior to spend some
extra time with if you just do something extra all the time. It seems
elementary, but it’s true.”
At the end of the interview, Buffett reminded
everyone to keep getting up after all falls because “you are healthy, and
bright and have decades ahead of you.”
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Recommended Books~ Showing Up for Life
Showing Up for Life
Book Description:
A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”—lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice on the world stage as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Through the course of several dozen narratives arranged in roughly chronological fashion, Gates introduces the people and experiences that influenced his thinking and guided his moral compass. Among them: the scoutmaster who taught him about teamwork and self reliance; and his famous son, Trey, whose curiosity and passion for computers and software led him to ultimately co-found Microsoft. Through revealing stories of his daughters, Kristi and Libby; his late wife, Mary, and his current wife, Mimi; and his work with Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter, among others, he discusses the importance of hard work, getting along, honoring a confidence, speaking out, and much more.
Showing Up for Life translates one man’s experiences over fourscore years of living into an inspiring road map for readers everywhere.
Praise
“Bill Senior is as wise as his son is brilliant. I’ve learned a lot from both of them and believe everyone can benefit from the insights Bill Senior shares in this book.”
—Warren Buffett
"Bill Gates Sr. is a wonderful example of what it means to be a global citizen, teaching us how we can work together for a more just and fair society."
former president Jimmy Carter
“Bill Gates Sr., does more than just show up in this charming and instructive guide to a good life. He shares lessons learned as a husband, a father, a lawyer, a philanthropist, and a citizen. Showing up for life is a gift of great value.”
—Tom Brokaw
—Warren Buffett
"Bill Gates Sr. is a wonderful example of what it means to be a global citizen, teaching us how we can work together for a more just and fair society."
former president Jimmy Carter
“Bill Gates Sr., does more than just show up in this charming and instructive guide to a good life. He shares lessons learned as a husband, a father, a lawyer, a philanthropist, and a citizen. Showing up for life is a gift of great value.”
—Tom Brokaw
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Inspiration~ Happy Father's day! by Bill Gates
Dad and I near the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.
June 14, 2013 | By Bill Gates
On Father's Day
This week, my father got a lifetime achievement award from the University of Washington as a distinguished member of the alumni. They recognized something that Melinda and I see every day: his remarkable energy and commitment to making the world a better place. I like to keep most of these blog posts focused on the work I’m doing and the things I’m learning, but with Father’s Day coming up, this award seemed like a good chance to talk a bit about my dad.
As I’ve said before, my dad is the man I aspire to be. I especially admire his sense of integrity. He is one of the wisest and most calm people I know. And he taught me a lot about how to think.
Dad is a retired attorney, and I think I inherited his lawyer’s approach to analyzing problems. I spent a lot of Sunday dinners listening to Dad talk about work with my mom, who was very involved in the United Way in Seattle and at the national and international levels. They might discuss a case Dad was working on or an issue that Mom was dealing with through the United Way. Eventually I started joining in the conversations, and they were very influential years later when I got involved in philanthropy.
Melinda and I toasting Dad.
Melinda and I toasting Dad.
I feel very lucky that I get to work with my dad at the foundation, and that the team there gets to learn from him. Last month, Melinda gave the commencement speech at Duke University, her alma mater, and encouraged the students to spend their lives making the world a better place. I can’t think of a better example of someone who has done that than my father.
What’s amazing to me is that, even at age 87, he’s not done yet. This week I’ve been thinking back to something he said after Mom died. The family was having dinner together at home. Dad sat us down and told us not to worry about him. He said he still had ten good years left in him.
That was 19 years ago, and I’m glad to say he’s still going strong. Happy Father’s Day, Dad.
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