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Don’t be afraid of sales especially. At least one founder has to get good at asking people to use your product and give you money.
Startup Playbook
Sam Altman and Gregory Koberger
Much of the time, he was closeted in his office, where he had oil prices chalked on a blackboard. He paced this spartan office, hands laced behind his back. Periodically, he emerged from his lair, mounted a high stool, and studied ledgers, scribbling calculations on pad and paper. (During meetings, he was a restless doodler and note taker.) Frequently, he stared out the window, motionless as an idol, gazing at the sky for fifteen minutes at a stretch. He once asked rhetorically, “Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things . . . fail because we lack concentration—the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?”9
Gilbert went into some detail on the subject of emotionalism and suggested that the cultural emphasis on face turned everyone in the country into natural‐born actors. The important thing to acknowledge is not that the Chinese make use of emotionality—of course they do—but rather to understand that the emotions on display are largely fake. And the reason for the strategy in business is obvious: It increases the chances of success in any deal.
What's Wrong With China
Paul Midler
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