Posts tagged Donald Trump

In a recent post, Guy Kawasaki did his famous 10 questions, this time with no other than Donald Trump.
Now, one can argue about Trump’s business style (and hair…) but one thing that he said summarizes the core of success, and it shows that he lives up to it (quote from the interview):

Question: TV is TV, real life is real life: What’s the most important real-life advice you can give to an entrepreneur?

Answer: You have to love what you do.
Without passion, great success is hard to come by. An entrepreneur will have tough times if he or she isn’t passionate about what they’re doing. People who love what they’re doing don’t give up. It’s never even a consideration. It’s a pretty simple formula.

When I meet with entrepreneurs, this is one aspect that I’m trying to figure out. How much passion they have for their product? Is it something that is part of their life? 

Passion alone will not get you to success, but lacking it can surely prevent you from it.

I would add that on top of loving what you do, you must be able to pass on your passion into your product, and from there to the users.
The web is full of great examples for that: Pandora is all about music-passion, Flickr is picture sharing passion, and digg is info-passion.

What’s your (product) passion?