!! Donald Trump - Think Big. Richard St. John: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes. Perfectionists are losers. “What if people won’t want to hire me because I am too young?” “Give me a break,” he said. “Perfectionists are losers.” I laughed out-loud at his bluntness, but immediately got what he was saying. When you sit back and wait until you are perfectly prepared for an opportunity, it passes you by.
What highly productive and successful people do is spend as little time as possible at the edge of opportunities, agonizing whether or not to move forward. Instead, they jump in with both feet and sink or swim quickly. So if you have the tendency to let perfectionism limit your success in the world, how do you overcome it? Tip #1: Reframe your understanding of how perfect happens. There is nothing wrong with having very high standards and wanting to produce excellent work. The problem is, most people don’t understand that extremely high quality work usually results from a practice my father taught me from photography: bracketing. This technique applies to many things besides photography: You just know. Irresistable Instant Motivation. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett on Success.