Passion to Success

As I told passion is one of the sources of success and achievement. Being passionate means having a state of being with some idea every time and everywhere, 24 hours per day, even while sleeping you dream and breathe with it cause it is in your mind. The more passionate you are the more chances to succeed, to achieve your goals. 

Even if sometimes you don’t have enough skills or abilities to pull something off, however with passion you can organize it and be on a right track, you can get the ball rolling even if you don’t have enough funds or facilities. This situation is quite familiar to those people who have started their enterprises from completely nothing, except passion. Possessing a passion you can induce people in what your dreams are about, and in turn they will respond your ideas and finally help you in your start. 

Referring to Inamori’s way of describing passion, he represents the initials of seven essential principles of managing the company as follows:


P- Profit
How to have a profit? Obviously, by maximizing sales and minimizing expenses. The advice here is not to be a slave of the money, instead of persuading profit, let profit follow you. 


A-Ambition
How to nurture the ambition? To foster ambition you have to desire it so strong and constantly that it becomes a part of your mind first and life after. Being ambitious means always having strong desire and clear vision of what you want to do, your goals, causes and ideals.

S-Sincerity
What does sincerity beget? Sincerity begets to trust, trust begets respect, and respect enables you to lead your group10.You should be sincere not only with your subordinates, but also with your customers and competitors to create this harmony where you earn customer’s respect and compete for it in a fare way. 

S-Strength
How to be strong? Don’t be afraid of taking responsibility and risks. A prosperous entrepreneur needs to convince his employees in their strength, the courage to do the right thing. He also has to create this confidence in them to not let them to be cowards or escape from the difficulties or uncertainties.

I-Innovation
How to be innovative? Being innovative means using new techniques in creating something, making something better than anyone and than it was done before, you must be creative at the same time. To be innovative you need to raise creativity inside of you, to make it a lifelong habit. 

O-Optimism
How to be and stay optimistic? Even in the most difficult situations you have to be cheerful, positive and full of enthusiasm, try to avoid all negative thoughts and pessimistic tune. Moreover, this either positive or negative attitude will directly influence the work force and the way you deal with customers and suppliers. 

N-Never give up
How to manage to never give up? Keep trying - is the tip number one, we have a huge number of examples of great people who achieved and prospered in their life but we don’t know how many times they failed, and mostly it doesn’t even matter. To achieve something you must be willing to make untiring, constant efforts toward your aim despite all the uncertainties, risks, obstacles and frustration. 

These are just several tips for Success, but if you at least follow all of them you will be more able to create your own path to the Success. 

10.  A Passion for Success: Practical, Inspirational, and Spiritual Insight from Japan’s Leading Entrepreneur,
 Kazuo Inaori, p.98

From drama called Life to Enterprise

In the drama of life, there is a huge difference between those who have written themselves a starring role, and those who idle through life without aim9.

In his book, Kazuo Inamori, the founder and chairman of both Kyocera and DDI Corporations, the most outstanding entrepreneur in Japan, says that our life is a drama in which each one of us plays our own role. Moreover we don’t only act different roles being heroes, protagonist, villains, enemies or whoever, also we write the scenario ourselves, and our destiny can be identified by our way of both thinking and acting. However, the problem is that some people believe our lives to be determined by destiny at birth, but why do they think so? I recon that this happens because it is easier for them to understand the life and its destination, they do need to do much to create something new or different, they don’t even try to change their life, they consider their life to be written before so there is no reason for them to shape it. But as it was told “The best way to predict the future is to create it”. 

As far as I believe that opportunities are everywhere and they are await us at every corner of life, so we are endeavoring for a chance we can catch them. Since the outcomes of our lives are in our own hands, we are the ones who create our own life first then transmit those attitudes on the business we’re going to deal with, an enterprise for instance. 

Many different roles are required to produce the play, or in other words, to build a drama of an enterprise. It’s happened quite often when starting up your own business one person plays many roles simultaneously, so he has to be a professional in his own right and passion plays here a great role as well.

The quality of a company reflects the passion for excellence that each member of the cast displays. While the roles may differ, each actor or actress is a professional in his or her own right.

9.  A Passion for Success, Kazuo Inamori, p.4

Entrepreneurial spirit

Having read vast examples of rags-to riches stories, I came to the conclusion that an entrepreneur lives in every of us and the degree of this spirit depends on the personality first of all, then, on the atmosphere a person surrounded by, on conditions he or she was brought up in, on the level of risks he or she is willing to take. However, we can both control and raise this spirit by special techniques that were described before. All people are entrepreneurs, but unfortunately, many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Even though those stories with happy ends (those with bad ends we’ll never know) represents great example of how to achieve the goals and be successful, all of them had their share of struggles, faults, and weaknesses too. 

The names of John Rockefeller, Aristotle Onassis, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Estee Lauder ring a bell, don’t they? Some were inheritors of vast wealth who chose to make it on their own. Others were made famous by showbiz or their colorful lifestyles. Nevertheless, in the end, the stories of their lives can provide an inspiration to all of us because they fit the definition of the true entrepreneur: someone who takes risk with great reward in sight. 

When most people will be dying to finish a degree from Harvard, Bill Gates, whose interest in computers and programming started at an early age, decided to dropout to manage a small business, he and his partner, Paul Allen, called Microsoft. And as it was said in the article, Famous Entrepreneurs by Daegan Smith, his assets were estimated thereabouts $46 billion dollars in 2004.

By no means this is not the only example for prospering and becoming the cliché of famous entrepreneurs. Born out of wedlock and a victim of molestation, Oprah Winfrey studied and worked hard to have a television career - starting as a news reporter and anchor and emerging as one of the most prominent talk show hosts and businesswomen in the world8.

Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are just two out of many famous entrepreneurs that we can see in the business world today. Those examples give us a good and quite revealing hint of the techniques and methods that we may use to achieve financial freedom. This gives us insights that are invaluable, and it will probably teach us how to get wealth and achieve greatness. This is also lesson that will help us to see and expand the development in the same spirit of entrepreneurship that these rich and famous entrepreneurs shared.


 8. Women Entrepreneurs, Lalitha Rani, 2000