5 Attitudes that Guarantee Success: Bill Gates

When the world's richest man offers career advice, it's smart to listen.

Bill Gates brief success profile:

• The company he founded created a whole industry.
• A net worth of nearly $80 billion, he's the richest man in the world.
• If you're looking for a role model of lifelong success, a Bill Gates wouldn’t be a misfit.

How did Bill Gates achieve and attain this success heights? As they say, the success of men are in their story. Over the years in different fora, Bill Gates himself had pointed out some of the attitudes, ideas and opinion he believes lead to his continued success.

While we know that different things may work for different people, but there is also a place of learning new ideas and testing if it will work for you or not.

In this article, here are some 5 of the most relevant attitudes Bill Gates has imbibed over the years and what looks for--and which anyone can develop:

1. Knowing how to say no.
This is advice Bill Gates got from Warren Buffett, and it's extremely useful for everyone, whether you're rich and successful or not. In this busy world, knowing when and how to say no to projects, social invitations, and other requests for your time may be the most important skill you need.

2. Welcoming criticism.
"Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement," Gates advises in Business @ the Speed of Thought. “I find listening to criticism nearly always gives me perspective that I didn't have, and that I need.” Next time someone wants to chew you out, don't walk the other way. Stop, listen, thank them-and learn.

3. Optimism.
Without optimism, no one would ever start a company, or invest in a new idea, or try out a new product or market. "Optimism is often dismissed as false hope," he said in a Stanford commencement speech in 2013. "But there is also false hopelessness."

4. Being willing to fail.
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose,” Bill Gates wrote in The Road Ahead. You may find successes more enjoyable than failures, but it's the failures that will teach you the most and give you the best opportunities to grow.

5. The ability to focus on a goal and keep progressing toward it
In an annual letter from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates drew some lessons from the history of the steam engine. "You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal," he wrote. He went on to say that finding the right goal and the right metric for tracking one's progress is surprisingly difficult.

You possibly had read and know these 5 points, you’ve attended several trainings, workshop that expose these points. How easy have you been doing it? What personal insight have you given to doing it in light of your specific situation or environment?

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