Keep An Eye On People Like Jeff Bezos — Be And Act As People Like Shaq O’ Neal
This might be the key to your financial freedom.
We all know that people like Jeff Bezos and Shaq O Neil are very successful individuals in their various fields. But they both have some things in common that could make or mar ones success in life.
Of course, they do.
That thing is what separates the regular people from the very successful ones. Sometimes, that thing can be more than just investing a ton of flesh, a break of sweat, or an array of years into the immense hard work required to achieve their goals. It can be as easy as creating a new way around the whole process. Such is the case for Jeff Bezos.
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“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.” — Jeff Bezos
During the early 90s, Jeff Bezos had the idea. Of being able to read any book of his choice. From the comfort of his home without visiting the bookstore. In the mid-90s, he quit his day job as an investment banker and decided to start up a virtual book store from the comfort of his home in Washington after having the feelings of being in a tight box, through harboring the virtual book store in his mind. Although when he started the company, he had just a handful of staff working with him. But they worked endlessly and tirelessly to get the virtual store on the sales margin and just after a year. In 1995, he made his first sales. And soon enough, the company became the multi-million-dollar company that we know of today as Amazon.
What he has can be termed as having outstanding success. People like him should be getting more attention because they might hold a rigid cover for the impure loopholes we contain.
Why and How
People like Jeff would cunningly prove to the world and society around them as being very well off-balance and almost crazy. You might have that friend, that brother, cousin, or sibling who possesses traits like the kinds of Jeff Bezos and be a probable future multi-millionaire or even more a billionaire. But you might not just be as detailed a person to see that.
Certain studies show that 40% of successful companies start, losing many employees at the brink of their success.
- When the garage sales officer might have had the opportunity of becoming a state or regional sales officer. But have misused it.
- When the yard production officer at the inception of the company. Could have been promoted to the position of Nationwide Production Manager. As a result of the growth of the company.
- When the next-door neighbor, has had the opportunity of acquiring a large share of the company stock. Just from funding with a small amount at the inception. But have misused it.
- When the friends of the company founder, have had the opportunity of acquiring some motivation to achieve personal pursuits from the whole process. But have misused it.
These and others are the advantages of being close to a franchise that might blow up the radar anytime soon. But how do you recognize such a person or company?
Here is how?… They are;
Hoarders of flimsy ideas:
What Jeff Bezos did during the 1990s was like going against the forces of sales and finance. He broke the chain of marketing through an almost unsellable idea at the time. I bet more than a thousand people might have had the same thoughts in them at the time and refused to hit the snooze on their weariness. Most of their likes blossom in flimsy ideas. Ideas that ordinarily throw off even the most intelligent people as being foolish. When he subsequently hints you about those ideas you feel are impossible. Watch him close.
Carriers of immense positivity:
A said rumor that waved the media a few years back proved Jim Carrey as a massively positive person. It states that he jokingly wrote a check of 10million dollars to himself and wished that he would cash it out someday. Soon enough, he actualized that stunting joke. I presently have a friend who Future-Brags. He consistently mutters to me with confidence that he would have a store selling his handmade shoes(LummyT-Shoes) all over the world someday. I know I am confident, but that is a lot of confidence if you ask me. But I guess I better start taking him seriously. I should probably start telling myself that I will someday write a book that will massively sell more copies than the highest best seller ever. It is possible, but it might be way more than my heart can carry. As we are different individuals, I like to take real calculated faiths. But people like Jeff Bezos could move mountains with just a little hope.
0% fears 100% guts:
No! We do not do that around here.
That is the stance of their kind of person, the go-getter spirit. Working as an investment banker, I do not think that Jeff Bezos was anywhere down the financial dungeon when he decided to quit to move down to Washington. Then start up a life pursuing a flimsy idea. Only someone with a whole lot of gut can do this.
Likewise, the same for many other successful franchises, there have been situations where the person took a very bold and almost un-humanlike/uncalculated step. He just knew it would work out someday.
How many of us would quit our day to Job even after marriage to pursue some cocky idea?
How many of us can ignore our fears and take that groundbreaking step that would have most of our friends and family beckoning that we are crazy?
In most cases, people with such boldness will at worst achieve their goals only a few years later.
Although, at this moment when they are yet to achieve the said success they want. It might seem a little harder to tag them to the likes of Jeff Bezos. But, if by chance you know someone with those three abilities, keep an eye on them. Never let go of them as they might be who you would pull a slam dunk on like Shaq O’ Neal did with Google.
‘‘My greatest and easiest investment yet ever is investing in Google before it became public.’’- Shaq O’ Neal.
Shaq! The over 200 cm tall popular American Basketballer holds the award for the smartest investor/ money master in my mind.
Since the time I read Robert Kiyosaki’s best-seller book- Rich Dad Poor Dad. Shaq O’ Neal has been the only person I know that has concreted my belief in one of the rules in the book. That states that you let your money work for you.
Before Google went public in 2004, Shaq O’ Neal was presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to invest in Google. And he took it by the horns. Shaq O’ Neal invested quite a bit in the company. He took that investment opportunity by the horns, but he still wishes today that he had grasped a little more than he did on that day. Google has since then has its share price drifted more than almost 700% since its inception into the market. Such that if you invested a certain amount in Google ten years ago, you would be getting a little above 400% return, according to CNBC calculations.
‘My only regret is that I wish I would have bought more’- Shaq O’ Neal
If he had the opportunity to go back to when he heard about Google. I bet he would have invested quite a fortune in it. Shaq has since then adopted that idea and has become a part player and owner in many other investment opportunities like Lyft, Gyms, Vitamin water, some developing tech companies and many others.
Be like Shaq
- Let your money work for you.
- Invest in people’s flimsy ideas, only if it’s worth it.
- Invest in ideas that look very new and game-changing
- Stretch forth your hands no matter how little, and invest in a struggling business around you.
- Invest in businesses that involve technology, that’s the world’s new gold mine.
Most of all, follow your guts on most investment opportunities and weigh your options if you don’t have the investment capital the likes of Shaq O’ Neil have.
Lastly, every human can acquire wealth, but we don’t all have the dexterity to generate one. Hence you either beat them or join them. If you are not crazy enough, gut-strutted enough or faith lifted enough like that of Jeff Bezos, then be smart enough to recognize opportunities like Shaq O’ Neil.
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