My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Experience is not the poor relation of expertise. Valuable insights in business often come from the people on the ground.
Business is about being the best that you can be, and there are always glowing examples of people that we can all learn from.
Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.
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