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You've Got... Rob Dyrdek
Rob Dyrdek, a professional skateboarder, serial entrepreneur, MTV star and member of our Board of Directors, shares the secret to his entrepreneurial success.
Posted 5/ 13 11 at 1:00 PM | Board of Directors, Advertising & Marketing, Leadership, Starting a Business, International Business, Consumer Products & Services, Media, Retail, Inventions & Innovations, You've Got
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Seriously, you are such an inspiration! Unbelievable what I see on each show, let alone laugh me booty off, but as well admire how the positive energy can even emulate through the tv. I volunteer with the kids at Phx Children's Hospital and their fav fav ting is watching you and your shows. I cannot wait to show them this "Make your luck" video. Although many of them are not going to be able to accomplish that, I thank you for placing smiles on their faces ((:
The thing inspires me most about you rob is your ability to make things happen, you have an idea click in your head and you persue it whith full force. Thats what you have really made me realize how powerfull it is to trust yourself and go for what you want with everything you have. Just wanna say thanks
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The absolute truth ... anything worth having is worth working hard to have it. When you finally figure that out, you can make it happen. Until then, you will experience one failure after another. No such thing as luck when it comes to building a successful business and career.
amen.
Attitude is the most important thing when negotiating, especially in financial matters. Maybe you can critique how you have presented yourself and your inventions to possible investors or government agencies, a bit of diplomacy and reigning in your emotions might help - investors like cool heads and open minds. Good luck!
I am an inventor, designer of new products, ranging from undersea transportation to getting cleaned up at the international space station.
They are all on the board ready to go. I have contacted everyone domestic and foreign worth my time.
I have work books of many new ideas and new products that would sell really good. I am a water as a fuel source designer user and a free energy developer. I have an eye on the future and with my collection of talents I can make a real change here in my town. My local government is fee happy and fine frizzed and my state is border line socialist fascist. I would like to help bring in free energy to my town and higher mileage techniques for them as well. Threw time the key to success is being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes telling someone what they need and then building it for them. Now as for making your luck, I have a design for a skatebord that has never been done, ever, and I am the designer that made the Tommy Shannahan Power Board work. Yep, I have a Shannahan Dirtboard. Some hints on the new design; I went bigger with after market upgrades. Investers welcome, kinney1a2b3 Good Luck.
When I taught school, I'd ask kids, do you want an A or do you want to know it all? Do you want to be at the front of the line or are you stepping back and giving others an advantage over you? Wanting an A after getting a lower grade is one goal. Wanting to know it all so you are the best you can be AHEAD of time, enough to work hard in advance to make sure you go as far as you can, that is a different goal. Lots of kids with all As are not so accomplished outside the classroom. So, how much hard work are you willing to do to get what you want? Don't tell me how much you want something. Show me work, time, effort, struggle. Don't use phrases like work harder? What is working harder? Show me working longer, asking more questions, digging for meaningful answers, connecting things you learn with THE world. Not your childish world, but the world outside the classroom.
And if what you are doing isn't getting you what you want, do something different than what you did. But before you toss out a system, make sure the system doesn't work rather than just you didn't work your system. No system is any better than the weakest player at the weakest moment.
Define success for yourself. What are the parts of the success you want. If it's only money, you might wake up one day very unhappy. If you want to be educated, that is a life long pursuit. If you want to be successful in many things, you have to be willing to fail at times. But failing just means that is what you work harder at the next time. You can say, I don't know this yet. YET. Everyone falls. Some even get knocked down. Staying down is a choice.
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The average American doesn't belong in the stock market! The stocks are the next sucker deal. A stock is only worth what the next sucker is willing to pay you for it. That is why a company like Lucent in 2000 can go from 84.00 a share to .53 cents in 2003. Look at where it is today. Few stocks pay dividends, even those few that do pay good dividends, are a fools game. If their price drops like Lucent's whatever dividends you had received for years will be offset by the loss in vlaue of the stock's price.
One of you had a partial answer, others not a clue. Working harder in and of itself just makes you dead faster. There is a lot more to succes than worker harder. There is much more to it than having ideas. Think, what makes a pride of lions successful in their area of operation. There are two reasons. Watch a PBS program on lions and figure it out.
Luck...timing.....Success is when preparation meets opportunity...and of course...THE MAN UPSTAIRS....Being blessed with parents who actually stick around to love you, encourage you, enable you and develop you and discipline you is MAJOR. If opportunity comes knocking at your door and you're standing there naked with nothing to offer or are taking a dump...YOU LOSE. I wouldn't be caught dead on a skate board, personally, but good for this kid..his passion drove him to where he is. So, in the end, find your passion and go for it.
So then when somone doesn't make it, then the "man upstairs" didn't like them?
The good Lord helps those who help themselves...putz...nice try.
I am a 42 year old mom who has learned to love Rob Dyrdek and the Fantasy Factory. My kids LOVE the show and I have watched it numerous times by default. Rob IS an inspiration to these kids to follow their dreams.....thank you for being such a relevant role model to todays generation of kids. My personal favorite though it Rob and Big, and the mini horse episodes. You go Rob!