104: Tom Bilyeu: How To Grow Your Business 57,000% In 3 Years
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk
Ryan Hawk
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Episode 104: Tom Bilyeu: How To Grow Your Business 57,000% In 3 Years
Tom Bilyeu is an incredible leader… I really appreciate that he’s actively seeking out opportunities to learn and grow. His company has had massive amounts of success in an extremely short period of time. They’ve grown 57,000 % in the last three years. Tom has an energy and excitement in his voice that moves and empowers people.
Tom Bilyeu is the Co-Founder/President of Quest Nutrition. Quest is number 2 on the list of Inc.’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Tom is also the Host Inside Quest – An incredible show he publishes on YouTube where he speaks with some of the greatest leaders in the world… People who are titans of their industry like, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Rainn Wilson, Robert Greene, Lewis Howes, and more…
Episode 104: Tom Bilyeu: How To Grow Your Business 57,000% In 3 Years
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“When You Have A Growth Mindset, Those Inadequacies Are Opportunities”
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- Being real… Being able to see where you’re deficient and not let that be a knock on your self-esteem leads to sustained excellence
- The importance of having a growth mindset
- Understanding your strengths as well as turning your deficiencies into strengths
- Build a business on a foundation that leads to fulfillment.
- “The harder you chase the money the less likely you are to get it.”
- Kai Whiting is doing it right – Intellectually and emotionally generous
- Key characteristics you must possess to work at Quest Nutrition
- Grand ambition – Understand the big challenges and embrace them
- DRIVE – Be an executor not just a dreamer
- Compassion – Be great but want to win as a team
- Understand that 15%-20% of time you’ll get it wrong
- 57,000% growth in 3 years! How?
- Marketing by giving product away
- Being a learning leader means you’re always hungry to learn… Being out front. Willing to do whatever is asked of you
“We Boot-Strapped A Manufacturing Business To $1 Billion In 5 Years. It’s Crazy”
Continue Learning:
- Go To: questnutrition.com
- Follow Tom on Twitter: @TomBilyeu
- Watch: Inside Quest
- To Follow Me on Twitter: @RyanHawk12
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Bio
Tom Bilyeu is the Co-Founder/President of Quest Nutrition. Quest is number 2 on the list of Inc.’s 500 Fastest Growing Companies. Tom is also the Host Inside Quest – An incredible show he publishes on YouTube where he speaks with some of the greatest leaders in the world… People who are titans of their industry like, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Rainn Wilson, Robert Greene, Lewis Howes, and more…
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| 0:00.0 | If they say even though this is a weakness, even though this is something I am innately terrible at, |
| 0:04.8 | and on top of that I really don't like it. But if I put the time into it to feed my greater goal of being a professional athlete, |
| 0:12.3 | it can pay off. Now that person, that person is |
| 0:15.7 | unstoppable. They have fed their innate strengths. They've gotten to really enjoy the |
| 0:20.1 | beauty of things that come more easily that you just feel sort of in rhythm with, but they've also |
| 0:24.3 | not been afraid to grind it out and just do the hard, badass work of getting something done even |
| 0:29.7 | when it's not your core strength. |
| 0:31.7 | That person accomplishes more than the person who either |
| 0:34.5 | just invest in strengths or just invest in shoring up weaknesses. |
| 0:39.3 | Our leaders born or are they made. Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work |
| 0:46.9 | on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other successful leaders. |
| 0:51.4 | Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. You're |
| 0:54.8 | listening to the Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk. Hey guys before we get to this great conversation I want to let you know that this |
| 1:09.1 | episode was brought to you by Mizin and Maine. |
| 1:13.2 | You'll probably remember from episode 64, |
| 1:15.7 | I spoke with a CEO of Mizin and Maine, |
| 1:17.6 | Kevin Lavelle. |
| 1:18.6 | And we promised to continue that dialogue |
| 1:21.7 | as we both progressed on our journeys and we certainly |
| 1:24.4 | have and we formed a partnership and Kevin and his great companies and support and |
| 1:29.8 | people that he works with have agreed to sponsor my podcast but for me I'm very picky when it comes to this I only wanted to work with people who I truly believed in their products so this is not just a sponsor to me. This is an endorsement. I |
| 1:45.7 | absolutely believe in everything that Kevin and his company stands for. I love who |
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