＂Signal Or Noise？＂ – Kevin O'Leary Shares Steve Jobs' Secret To Success
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In this episode of the CEO Huddle, I sit down with my good friend, Tom, to talk about the three things you have to get done every day to be successful in business. 1. The 3 Things You Have To Get Done 2. The Noise 3. The Signal 4. The Product 5. The Signals
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Kevin O'Leary says Steve Jobs gave him the best career advice.
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The only three things you have to get done every day.
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He was not a nice guy, but in the 90s, I made all of his software for the Mac in schools.
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He was an absolute asshole, but he taught me some very important things,
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he said that each day including you each day there will be three things you have to get done
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just three and that's called the signal and there's going to be a plethora of things
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that are going to stop you from doing that and that's called the noise and so the only thing
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you have to get good at in your life to be an entrepreneur is to distinguish what's signal and
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what's noise and then you do not let noise get in the way of getting the three things done they get
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done first. Tom, thoughts? So I think he's absolutely correct. And there's one of the
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things that you said for this last year, we were talking about speed, product, and signal,
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which means we don't want things to slow us down. The product, the main thing is the main thing.
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And then signal. We don't want the noise. We want signal. And I think that Steve Jobs gave great
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advice to kevin o'leary and kevin o'leary is pointing out he said listen he he had in his
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experience he said that steve was a bit of a an ass to work with get in line kevin o'leary a lot
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of people said that about steve steve jobs because he was maniacal he was focused and he's right
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what you need to put yourself in a in a mindset that says what are the three signal issues i got
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to get done today and i gotta push everything else off that plate that is great pure simple
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advice yeah i love it adam thoughts don't marry the wrong woman
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no black pill stick to this that's it that's all i got that's all you got okay i like if you had
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to get three things done you said 10 seconds i did three seconds we're moving on you don't have
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10 seconds here or get three things done for the guy that data direct you always come back after i
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go to everybody and you still want to say something so staying on this year with signal it's one of
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the hardest things for you to do it is one of the hardest things you'll ever do you know why
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uh elan musk said something the other day they asked him the question what is the worst
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invention and he said scrolling is the worst invention that it does so much damage to you
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you know when you kind of watch videos after videos doom scrolling it's one of the worst
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inventions and why is it one of the worst inventions it steal away steals away signal
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from you so if i got a book recommendation to make to all the ceos out there i got one book
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recommendation i will give to you i couldn't put it down tom i'm glad you're going through it
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i think have you wrapped it up or not yet are you done with it almost i keep going back to
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little things insane so type in the word ceo excellence if you're a business owner and you
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want to go read a book ceo excellence is a phenomenal book written by three uh mckenzie
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senior partners the only thing i will tell you is there's going to be some climate change stuff in
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There's some of the, you know, DEI bullshit that you're going to have to go through.
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But if you can set that aside, the content is actually phenomenal
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and is directed specifically to CEOs and a ton of stories in there
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of how Jamie Dimon stayed signal with a bunch of noise that he had around him
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He's got this invention, and I send him your way.
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I said, listen, in life, you have to figure out who you want to be.
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And one of the challenges about who you want to be is everybody wants to be a number one.
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But let me tell you what happens when you're number one.
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100% of all the issues that happen is your fault.
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Are you okay if 100% of everything that happens in a company is your fault?
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Behind closed doors, you can put the onus and responsibility on others.
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But if you don't want all the challenges to be on you,
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there's going to be, you have a few good days a year
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You literally have only a few good days a year.
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You have a lot of shitty years, shitty days a year.
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You have a lot of bad days, and you still have to find a way
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to come home, be a husband, be a father, be present,
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take care of your health while shit's hitting the fan,
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and then come back to work the next day with a great attitude
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and do your best to lead everybody knowing there's probably going to be
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and you've got to find a way to stay focused on the signal.
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So if you stay focused on the signal, long-term, big things will happen to you.
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