As a kid, I was told that “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
I was not sure what that actually meant but started to do what others were doing- the hard work!
They would tell me the stories of people who by their hard work re-spawn the course of time. They were Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Edison, Walt Disney. You know there is always a long list of people who can inspire kids by their stories of hard work. But as I am grown up now, I thought to invest research on their what you say their “hard work”.
Bill Gates:
Hi, I am Bill Gates. You know me right? Yes, you do. You call me lucky, you call me Hard working. I was both but a mixture of more; The smart work!
When IBM wanted a software that could run on their Personal Computer and give them a user-friendly look, I saw a future for my drowning company Microsoft. My luck was with me, particularly when an office assistant, which they mistook me, was able to impress them and get the contract in hands. Everything seemed good but the problem was that I haven’t developed any BASIC operating system that could run in IBM’s. I had handled this before and was sure to get it done this time too.
Here comes the Smart work I did. You will always have a hurdle and even a way to get out of that hurdle but may lack a source. Finding that source is important. I found. I bought an operating system that was designed to run on computers similar to IBM’s. I bought the licensing and complete ownership under my name and Microsoft, obviously without telling them about the IBM’s deal. I was sued later but the matter was settled.
I did some hard work and was able to make the OS run on IBM. I felt successful but this didn’t help me. IBM wanted me to sell my source code to them instead I proposed a deal. I was paid only the licensing fee for whatever number the PC’s with Microsoft OS was sold.
Smart work was not re-selling source code to IBM but charging the only licensing fee. How? This allowed me to license MS-DOS to any other PC manufacturer and not just IBM.
By 1983, Microsoft had their OS running in 30% of the market!
Henry Ford:
Do I need an introduction? You visualize me whenever you hear the idiom “rags to riches”. Isn’t? Probably you are riding a Ford while reading this or may have just seen passing a Ford passing by you just now.
I story began when I joined Detroit Edison Company in 1890. Within a short span, I was promoted to chief engineer. See hard work definitely pays.
Within a more couple of year, I was able to construct a model car, the Ford Quadricycle and lighting genius Edison appreciated my work saying to build a better model.
Time flew fast. I hold a patent for a carburetor. Left Edison to pursue my car-making business full-time.
Over the year I failed more than succeeding. Every time I felt everything is going good, I had to face some trouble. My company dissolved and I reformed it. Twice and succeeded. Thus you know me!
You ask: “You didn’t seem to enjoy hard work?”
I did smart work too. Who at that era thought that a car can be a mode of common transport for lower class people too? I created for everyone.
What makes me so successful is that I took my business idea and made it bigger. Had I stayed with my original small factory, I wouldn’t be the business icon that you know today. Every time I wanted to improve my company, I invested in a much larger factory to produce more products. Most of the entrepreneur fear to invest. They don’t have a future view. I had. Sometimes it was correct. Sometimes wrong. But I improved.
Edison:
Probably you are sitting under a bulb and that is what I am also known for. Yes, peep give me a limca book of record for failing the most. I failed over 10,000 times to invent a commercially the viable electric light bulb.
Most people still know me for my business tactic as well.
As you know I was not born smart or talented. I was neither treated well. My teachers had no faith in my early age and I was often deemed "difficult" by my teacher. My habit of reading helped me. I was neither born lucky- so had to rely completely on hard work. I saved a kid while working for a railroad. His father offered me to teach Telegraph. I could have asked for money but is money more worth than knowledge?
By 15 I had enough knowledge to work as a telegrapher. I experimented then and learned.
Time passed by and with the hard work I felt I was reaching my aim. My mother was ill and Father out of work. I needed to do something. I joined Western Union and developed an electronic voting recorder for quickly tallying votes in the legislature but no one seemed interested.
I needed to work luck for me. In 1869 I invented a Universal Stock Printer which impressed Gold and Stock Telegraph Company. They paid me $40,000 for the rights. Now I can work full time as an Inventor. There was no looking back.
Hard work definitely pays but smart work is equally important after all have you ever seen a worker, mason, barber getting richer? Don't we measure the level of success by money and popularity? That barber may get money when working hard but cannot get popularity until he is Javed Habib who did his work equally smartly rather intelligently.
You probably aren't still convinced that smart work+hard work=success?
Listen to what Abraham Lincoln has to say on this :
Still not convinced? See these memes:
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And before you scroll down more, Answer this?
Thanks for reading! keep scrolling,follow and share!
I was not sure what that actually meant but started to do what others were doing- the hard work!
They would tell me the stories of people who by their hard work re-spawn the course of time. They were Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Edison, Walt Disney. You know there is always a long list of people who can inspire kids by their stories of hard work. But as I am grown up now, I thought to invest research on their what you say their “hard work”.
Bill Gates:
Hi, I am Bill Gates. You know me right? Yes, you do. You call me lucky, you call me Hard working. I was both but a mixture of more; The smart work!
When IBM wanted a software that could run on their Personal Computer and give them a user-friendly look, I saw a future for my drowning company Microsoft. My luck was with me, particularly when an office assistant, which they mistook me, was able to impress them and get the contract in hands. Everything seemed good but the problem was that I haven’t developed any BASIC operating system that could run in IBM’s. I had handled this before and was sure to get it done this time too.
Here comes the Smart work I did. You will always have a hurdle and even a way to get out of that hurdle but may lack a source. Finding that source is important. I found. I bought an operating system that was designed to run on computers similar to IBM’s. I bought the licensing and complete ownership under my name and Microsoft, obviously without telling them about the IBM’s deal. I was sued later but the matter was settled.
I did some hard work and was able to make the OS run on IBM. I felt successful but this didn’t help me. IBM wanted me to sell my source code to them instead I proposed a deal. I was paid only the licensing fee for whatever number the PC’s with Microsoft OS was sold.
Smart work was not re-selling source code to IBM but charging the only licensing fee. How? This allowed me to license MS-DOS to any other PC manufacturer and not just IBM.
By 1983, Microsoft had their OS running in 30% of the market!
Henry Ford:
Do I need an introduction? You visualize me whenever you hear the idiom “rags to riches”. Isn’t? Probably you are riding a Ford while reading this or may have just seen passing a Ford passing by you just now.
I story began when I joined Detroit Edison Company in 1890. Within a short span, I was promoted to chief engineer. See hard work definitely pays.
Within a more couple of year, I was able to construct a model car, the Ford Quadricycle and lighting genius Edison appreciated my work saying to build a better model.
Time flew fast. I hold a patent for a carburetor. Left Edison to pursue my car-making business full-time.
Over the year I failed more than succeeding. Every time I felt everything is going good, I had to face some trouble. My company dissolved and I reformed it. Twice and succeeded. Thus you know me!
You ask: “You didn’t seem to enjoy hard work?”
I did smart work too. Who at that era thought that a car can be a mode of common transport for lower class people too? I created for everyone.
What makes me so successful is that I took my business idea and made it bigger. Had I stayed with my original small factory, I wouldn’t be the business icon that you know today. Every time I wanted to improve my company, I invested in a much larger factory to produce more products. Most of the entrepreneur fear to invest. They don’t have a future view. I had. Sometimes it was correct. Sometimes wrong. But I improved.
Edison:
Probably you are sitting under a bulb and that is what I am also known for. Yes, peep give me a limca book of record for failing the most. I failed over 10,000 times to invent a commercially the viable electric light bulb.
Most people still know me for my business tactic as well.
As you know I was not born smart or talented. I was neither treated well. My teachers had no faith in my early age and I was often deemed "difficult" by my teacher. My habit of reading helped me. I was neither born lucky- so had to rely completely on hard work. I saved a kid while working for a railroad. His father offered me to teach Telegraph. I could have asked for money but is money more worth than knowledge?
By 15 I had enough knowledge to work as a telegrapher. I experimented then and learned.
Time passed by and with the hard work I felt I was reaching my aim. My mother was ill and Father out of work. I needed to do something. I joined Western Union and developed an electronic voting recorder for quickly tallying votes in the legislature but no one seemed interested.
I needed to work luck for me. In 1869 I invented a Universal Stock Printer which impressed Gold and Stock Telegraph Company. They paid me $40,000 for the rights. Now I can work full time as an Inventor. There was no looking back.
Hard work definitely pays but smart work is equally important after all have you ever seen a worker, mason, barber getting richer? Don't we measure the level of success by money and popularity? That barber may get money when working hard but cannot get popularity until he is Javed Habib who did his work equally smartly rather intelligently.
You probably aren't still convinced that smart work+hard work=success?
Listen to what Abraham Lincoln has to say on this :
Still not convinced? See these memes:
.
.
.
And before you scroll down more, Answer this?
Anyway the key is to work rather than to cease !
Thanks for reading! keep scrolling,follow and share!
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