Roger James Hamilton's Blog, page 14
May 6, 2016
Tina Turner, an inspiration for all.
What would you do if your mum leaves when you’re 11, your dad leaves you at 13, you then lived with your grandma who dies when you’re 16, and you then marry a man who beats you for the next 16 years until you attempt suicide and fail?
If you are Tina Turner, you go on to start a new life, sell 200 million records and break the Guinness Book of Records for selling the most concert tickets of any solo performer in history.
Tina’s mother ran away when Tina was 11, to escape the abuse of her fath...
May 3, 2016
Jamie Vardy’s amazing story from underdog to champion
Jamie Vardy’s amazing story from underdog to champion:
Jamie had dreams of being a footballer, but was rejected by Sheffield Wednesday F.C. when he was 16 for being too small
Not giving up, he went to work as a labourer in a carbon fibre factory, working 12 hour shifts, so he could join 7th division team, Stockbridge Park, spending 3 years earning 30 a week.
At 20 years old he was convicted for assault after a pub fight, but kept playing football, and had to play for 6 months with an ankl...
May 2, 2016
Did you know that 8 out of the top 10 self-made women billionaires now come from China?
There’s a revolution taking place in China. Did you know that 8 out of the top 10 self-made women billionaires now come from China? In fact, China now has 93 self-made women billionaires compared to 31 in the rest of the World.
The growth in entrepreneurial wealth in China is mind boggling in scale. This year the country overtook the United States for the first time with the most number of billionaires in total – and continues to grow by another 90 to 100 each year.
China now has 568 billiona...
Could you turn your passion into a billion dollar business? That’s what Frank Wang did.
Could you turn your passion into a billion dollar business? That’s what Frank Wang did.
As a child, Frank had a passion for flight: “At elementary school I saw my first model helicopter in a shop. It cost the equivalent of several months’ salary for average people. My family could not afford it. But finally, after I did a good job on my high-school finals, my parents rewarded me with a model helicopter. I assembled it but I wasn’t able to fly it properly because to do that needed months of pr...
How do great entrepreneurs always manage to give more than they take, and still end up with more?
How do great entrepreneurs always manage to give more than they take, and still end up with more? By knowing the difference between scarce resources and entrepreneurial resources.
When you share a scarce resource, you end up with less. Share your money, and you end up with less money. Share your time, and you end up with less time.
When you share an entrepreneurial resource, you end up with more. Share your best ideas, and the idea will grow as others add to it. Share your connections, and yo...
What does an English teacher know about math? Plenty, if your name is Jack Ma.
What does an English teacher know about math? Plenty, if your name is Jack Ma.
Today, Jack raised $4.5 billion (the largest private tech investment ever) for Ant Financial: A company he created in December 2014. The company has gone from zero to $60 billion in value in just 16 months.
Jack Ma has never taken no for an answer. In September, 2014, when he was not able to list his company, Alibaba, in Hong Kong, and with China banning any foreign ownership of its companies, Jack got around the r...
April 27, 2016
This weekend Warren Buffett holds Berkshire Hathaway’s 51st AGM
This weekend Warren Buffett holds Berkshire Hathaway’s 51st AGM. At a time when world stock markets have been at their most volatile, Warren’s investments are showing another record year.
It’s easy to forget that Warren’s wealth is entirely self made (Even after giving away $21.5 billion he is still the 3rd richest man in the world with $66.7 billion). So how did he get started?
At 20 years old, Warren applied to Columbia Business School where Benjamin Graham (famous for his ‘value investing’...
The big 5 steps to flow
What’s the 5 most important steps for you to follow your flow?
In this week’s episode of Entrepreneur TV, I’ve shot this video in South Africa on Safari. As you’ll see, I’ve linked the “Big 5” animals to the “Big 5”
steps to flow, with the help of Tracey Keller’s amazing artwork.
Watch the video to see how you can use these 5 steps to follow your own natural path to flow
These five steps are linked to the five most important attributes for yo...
April 24, 2016
How long does it take to create an overnight success?
How long does it take to create an overnight success? For Fred Smith, the first FedEx overnight package actually took eleven years to deliver…
In 1962, Fred wrote a paper for his economics class on the idea of an overnight delivery service. His professor gave him a ‘C’, saying “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible.”
Not ready to give up on the idea, when Fred was sent to Vietnam as a Marine, he studied the Air Force’s lo...
April 21, 2016
Proof that entrepreneurship doesn’t depend on your company size, but on your mindset
Proof that entrepreneurship doesn’t depend on your company size, but on your mindset: Here are the top five company comebacks – each from the jaws of billion dollar failures.
STARBUCKS
In 2008, Starbucks’ over expansion into music, movies and too many loss-making stores led to an exodus of customers as quality fell. 977 stores closed and its stock price plummeted 80% from $40 to $7.83. In the midst of the crisis, founder, Howard Schultz returned as the CEO, saying Starbucks had “forgotten wha...
