If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
It would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.
The leadership group I had to follow is very easy to walk in their footsteps and try to be like them. You try and set that same example for the guys coming up.
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
Watching great people do what you love is a good way to start learning how to do it yourself.
When you work with people you aspire to be like, you pay attention to them.
