The Importance & Definition Of "Speed"
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Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Speed... is one of the big things that I push as an incredibly important factor when running a business & pushing out content - taking forever for something to be perfected, especially when it's a piece of social content ... it's more important to be timely than it is to "perfect" something, and this mashup expands on this ideal <3
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| 0:00.0 | I actually don't care about anything else. Speed, both in people's skills and hard work, |
| 0:04.9 | will trump anything. |
| 0:16.8 | Speed is four billion times more important than perfection. Speed, when you're not spending any time |
| 0:26.0 | worrying, you're spending time on executing. That's what a great culture is. It's speed. |
| 0:31.3 | You're not spending the 15 minutes a day, bickering. You're not spending the four hours, |
| 0:35.3 | they're wondering if that person is trying to ruin you. |
| 0:40.4 | And the speed is a variable for success to me in a big way, hustle, and so their patience and speed |
| 0:46.5 | are very much rubbing against each other, but it's like the diamond comes from that. |
| 0:51.7 | On your day to day work, you have to be fast with the clients. They email you, you email them back. |
| 0:59.3 | Like your day to day, but your vision, what you want to achieve in life, you're not going to build it |
| 1:04.5 | in one year. And so many people have it reversed. In the day to day, they're slow. |
| 1:11.1 | And in the macro, they want their business to be huge the next day. |
| 1:15.0 | People talk a big game. Gary Vee, you're going to buy the jets. I'm going to buy the ramps. |
| 1:19.3 | Yo, bro, nobody, nobody, unless they were a trust fund, baby, ever bought the ramps when they |
| 1:25.2 | go skiing for a week when they're 24. I am massively at a global level, patient, but on a practical |
| 1:33.2 | level and an execution level, I'm very fast. It's really, it really is religion and church. |
| 1:39.1 | When you align on religion, you can go fast and speed is such a bigger aspect of business |
| 1:43.9 | than people realize. And so instead of jockeying and politicking and pondering and posthuring and |
| 1:48.8 | debating for three to four months, we're just in do mode now. And when you're in do mode, |
| 1:52.8 | you fucking get shit done. |
| 2:00.4 | So I just went on a huge email store in my guess email ramp. To the whole company, it was great. |
| 2:08.3 | This huge communication thing about speed and efficiency. I just got a lot done in a |
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