Working Hard, Smart, and Long

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Hi everyone, today's episode is from a speech I gave to a class at Chapman University a few months ago. Let me know what your thoughts are by texting me at (949) 298-2905. Key Moments: [1:00] 10 years go by and you are only 25% of the way there and then they quit [2:16] There is the 1% of people that change the world. [3:13] If you keep going you become the "luckiest" guy in the world [4:03] Exponential growth doesn't occur if you attach your happiness to an outcome Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They either quit at 10 years or they quit when they're 25%.
0:03.1	Sometimes it's sooner, sometimes it's later.
0:05.2	But it's usually the 25% mark that doesn't come overnight
0:09.0	and then they quit.
0:10.6	This is entrepreneurs, the playbook. Work hard, work smart, and work long.
0:16.0	What does work long mean?
0:18.0	Work long is the hardest thing for young people to understand.
0:20.0	It's the most dis-disability thing that you'll ever experience.
0:23.0	I call it the 17 and a half year rule or there's no such thing as an overnight success.
0:30.0	Here's what happens to young people.
0:32.0	Anybody here 20 years old?
0:34.0	Okay, all you 20 year olds.
0:37.0	I mean a lot of 20 year olds and they spend a lot of money to come to Chapman University
0:40.0	or their parents are spending a lot of money
0:42.0	and they decide that they have... at the next
0:45.0	the next next Google, the next SpaceX,
0:48.0	the next SpaceX, the next SpaceX,
0:50.0	the next Tesla,
0:52.0	and they're extremely bright.
0:53.7	They got Zuckerberg in them.
0:55.4	They got Gates in them.
0:56.6	They have jobs in them.
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