本日佳句 – Embrace it Heart, Body, and Soul
Posted in Quote on Jul 15th, 2009
On the STVP speech, Steve Ballmer answered a question regarding experience at big and small companies:
I mean valuable experience is valuable experience. There’s nothing actually I would say startup experience is neither more valuable nor less valuable. People want to say that startup experience is more valuable or big company.
Hey, if you dug in to something, I don’t care if it was a small company or a large company, the key at least to me isn’t where you were, it’s did you dig in. Did you work your butt off? Did you perspire? Did you force you brain to really think and have peripheral vision? When I ask somebody like to tell me about what they did? I don’t care where they did it, I want to know did their brain fan out, or where they just looking at a narrow little piece, or were they’re really thinking broadly? Did they think comprehensively? Could they be concrete about what they did and what they accomplished? If things didn’t work, can they be honest and direct big company or small company.
This didn’t work, that didn’t work. So that’ll be the kind of thing that is important to me and I hope to the folks who work for us who are evaluating and looking at people.
Certainly I think in most people’s lives, it’s usually interesting to have some experience in bigger environments and smaller environments. You learn differently from both of them. As I said earlier, I got my big and little all in the same place which is unusual.
But at the end of the day, what I tell you most is to just dig in and love what you are doing. And if you love what you are doing and you work really hard at it, and you really embrace it heart, body, and soul, and I’m sure it matters too much.
I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don’t worry enough about whether they’ll love the work, and they worry more whether it’s a good experience. There is a time in your life generally when - you might pick a school that’s good for you, and you make pick a second school because it’s good for you. But by the time you are picking jobs, I’d really think you’d got to pick a job because you really think you’re going to love doing the work that you’re doing and it’s a mistake not to.
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