Eight to be great: The eight traits successful people have in common. Number two: work.
You know, when I was interviewing all these successful people, they kept telling me how hard they worked. And I remember standing there thinking: " Ah jeez, another comment about work? Why do not they tell me the real secret of their success?" Then finally I realized, hard work is a real secret to their success. All successful people work very hard.
Martha Stewart said to me: "I'm a real hard worker. I work and work and work all the time"
Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch said: "It's all hard work. Nothing comes easily. But I have a lot of fun."
Did he say fun? Yes! Successful people have fun working. That's why I say they are not really workaholics, they are workafrolics.
Jim Pattison, chairman of the Jim Pattison Group, is a workafrolics. He says: "Business is my recreation. I'd rather go to our factories and meet with our people, than go to the beach. I can tell you that."
Dave Lavery, the NASA whiz, who builds those robots for Mars, said to me: "We work our fingers to the bone. But it doesn't seem like work. It's fun. It's what we want to do. We don't want to put things down and go home.
Bill Gates is a workafrolic. Even after he was a multimillionare. He worked most nights until 10 pm and only took two weeks off in 7 years, and he probably spent them on his computer.
Oprah Winfrey is a workafrolic. She said: "I would never see daylight. I'd come into work at 5.30 in the morning when it was dark and leave at 7 or 8 when it was dark.
I am a workafrolic, and over the years, I've gone through many days and even weeks without much sleep, just because I was having so much fun. And I gotta admit, at times like that you say to yourself: "Am I the only one working this hard?" Because there's a myth it comes easy to some people. You turn on the TV. Nobody is working that hard.
A guy like Chris Rock stands up on stage, tells a few jokes. What's hard about that? But even Chris says: "I wasn't the funnest guy growing up, but I was the guy who worked on being funny the hardest"
Trust me! I've interviewed over 500 successful people, not one of them said it came easy, even though they were doing what they loved.
And we tend to underestimate and overestimate talent. But in the end, work tops talent.
Arthur Benjamin, America's best math whiz, said to me: "I think numbers and I have always gotten along. But I'm sure my 'talent' it just due to the time and hours and work that I've put into it"
Many talented people don't achive as much success as they could, unfortunately, because they sit back on their talent and never learn to work hard. That's what happened to Michael Jordan when he first started playing basketball. He had the talent, but he wasn't putting in the work, and the coach actually cut him from the highschool basketball team.
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