【商業】成功企業家的必備品質:不要把錢看作成績,要把自己看成富

商業不只是金錢遊戲

Sadhguru explains that it is not money alone that drives a successful entrepreneur, and looks at the fundamental qualities of those who have made it big in business。

薩古魯闡釋了驅動一個成功企業家的並非只有金錢,以及那些在商業上取得巨大成功的人所具有的根本品質。

Sadhguru:

For an entrepreneur, I know money is important, but money does not come because you desire money。 It comes because you do something well。 If you think only about money, that means in my understanding, you are only interested in the consequence, not the process。 Those who are only interested in the consequence and not in the process will only dream about it, they will not do it。

Sadhguru(薩古魯):

對一個企業家來說,我知道錢很重要,但錢不會因為你渴望它而到來。它來是因為你把一些事做好了。如果你只想著錢,在我看來那意味著你只對結果感興趣,對過程不感興趣。那些只對結果而非過程感興趣的人只會空想,他們不會行動。

Instead of constantly thinking about how much money you want to earn, if you look at what you want to create and if what you create is truly worthwhile, money will happen。

與其總想著你要掙多少錢,如果你看看你想要創造什麼,如果你所創造的是真正有價值的,那麼錢就會到來。

At the end of your life, you cannot take what you have gathered。 What matters is only what you have created。 If you look at modern-day entrepreneurs who made it big, such as Narayana Murthy, these people did not bother about money。 They bothered about creating something。 And because what they created was valuable to everyone, money naturally came in。 Above all, if you are creating what you value, if you are creating what you see as being of immense value to everyone’s life, you will have the joy of creating it。

在你臨終時,你帶不走你所積聚的。你所創造的才是唯一重要的。你看看現代那些把企業做得很大的人,如納拉亞納·穆爾蒂(譯者注:Narayana Murthy,印孚瑟斯創始人,印孚瑟斯為印度首家在美上市公司),這些人不操心錢。他們操心的是要創造什麼。因為他們所創造的對每個人都有價值,錢自然就來了。最重要的是,如果你在創造對你來說有價值的,如果你在創造你認為對每個人的生命都有重大價值的,那麼你會享受創造它的快樂。

An entrepreneur becomes an entrepreneur because he wants to create something that he thinks must happen。 If you want to create something, money is a part of it。 Without money, no activity moves properly in today’s world。 So money is just another one of the materials to make things happen。 Like there are material managers, you need a money manager。

一個企業家之所以成為一個企業家,是因為他想要創造出他認為必須要發生的。如果你想要創造什麼,金錢是其中的一部分。沒有錢,在現今這個世界什麼事都做不好。所以錢只是讓事情發生的又一個原料。就像原料需要有人管理一樣,金錢也需要人管理。

How much money you make depends upon the times。 The huge success stories of today like Infosys are relevant to a certain time in history。 At a certain time, certain technologies and breakthroughs allow these things to happen。 You should not look for those things。 You must just look at what it is that you want to create, in what way do you want to add value to people’s lives。 If you are really offering something of great value to people’s lives, why do you have to count the money? It will anyway come。

你能掙多少錢取決於你所處的時代。如印孚瑟斯(Infosys)等當代取得巨大成功的企業都與所處的時代有關。在某一特定時期,某些特定的技術和突破讓這些事得以發生。但你不應該去尋找那些。你必須只是去思考你想要創造什麼,你想要以什麼樣的方式給人們的生命增添價值。如果你真的給人們的生命提供了具有巨大價值的東西,你為什麼還要算計著錢?它總會到來的。

Sometime ago, Narayana Murthy was with us in a conference and he was sharing a few things。 He started out as a small entrepreneur and today, has become a name the entire world respects。 When he chose his partners when Infosys was starting out – which is an important part of any business – the other six people – were many years junior to him。 But when he took them as a partner, he gave them an almost equal equity in his business as he himself had。 People told him he was crazy。 Most of his partners had only a year of experience in the software industry and he was giving them so much stake in the company。 So he replied, “It does not matter because I am not doing this for money。 I want their hundred percent involvement。 They should not be thinking of anything other than making this into a success。” And for him, it paid off because it is better to own fifteen percent of 50,000 crores than own hundred percent of five crores。

前不久,納拉亞納·穆爾蒂和我們共同參加了一個會議,會上他分享了幾件事。他從一個小企業主開始,如今成為了備受世界尊敬的知名企業家。在印孚瑟斯初創時期,當他選擇合作伙伴時(這對任何企業來說都是很重要的一部分),其他六個人都比他小很多。但他視他們為合夥人,他給了他們和自己近乎相同的股份。人們都說他瘋了。大部分合夥人都只有一年的軟體行業工作經驗,而他卻給了他們這麼多的股份。他回答道:“這不重要,因為我不是為了錢做這事。我想要他們百分百投入。除了讓它成功之外,他們不應該想其它任何事。”對他來說,這麼做有了很好的回報,因為擁有5千億的15%總比擁有5千萬的100%好。

And above all, it is most important that people who are working with us are willing to throw their lives into it, because without everyone putting their lives into it, something big is not going to happen。 If you work in a cautious way: “I will do eight hours work, you do eight hours work” – this will not make an enterprise。 An entrepreneur has to live it。 It is not just about making a living, it is about making a life out of the activity we perform。 An entrepreneur is self-propelled – he does not need anything from outside to push him。 He or she wants to push himself or herself hundred percent to their limits and do something。 If this has to happen, the fundamental incentive is about creating something larger than yourself。 Money is just a consequence。

最重要的是,和我們一起工作的人願意將他們的生命投入其中,因為若不是每個人將他們的生命投入其中,真正有重大意義的事就不會發生。如果你有所保留地工作:“我做8小時工作,你做8小時工作”——這無法成就一個企業。一個企業家必須活出它。這不僅僅是關於謀生,這是關於透過我們所從事的活動來造就生命。一個企業家是自我推動的——他不需要任何外在的東西來推動他。他或她想把自己百分之百地推向極限來做一件事。如果這必須發生,根本的動機是你想要創造比你自己更大的東西。而金錢只是一個結果。

原文連結:

isha。sadhguru。org/global/en/wisdom/article/entrepreneurship-isnt-just-money-game