Success is learned from everything

　At the age of 12, he started mowing grass for someone for pay, and the insight he gained after a holiday was that it is important to be professional when the grass is cut neatly.

　　When he was 14, he helped out in a supermarket warehouse and learned the lesson that you must make sure that the goods on the supermarket shelves are stocked in the warehouse and never out of stock.

　　When he was 15, he went to a restaurant to wash dishes again, from the back pain of the busy understand the truth: someone has to do the work that no one likes to do, and there will always be leftover food on the plate, if not too dirty, you can sneak a small bite to know what they really taste like.

　　When he was 16, he was looking for subscribers for a newspaper, a job that was easy to be rejected. After countless rejections, he learned the hard way that perseverance pays off - it takes about one newspaper subscription for every 40 homes he visits. Then he ran to work as a delivery boy at a small appliance store and learned that delivering on time was as important as selling the goods.

　　At 17, he returned to work in his father's deli and discovered that customers liked to see smiling waiters and liked clean plates and plates for cooked food.

　　When he was 18, he used his after-school time to work as a car washer at a car detailing store and figured out a way to get $15 for just washing the exterior of the car, but $115 for scrubbing the car carefully and efficiently inside and out, leaving no nooks and crannies untouched, of which $100 was a tip from the owner. This gave him an epiphany: attention to detail and care, very troublesome and laborious, but very valuable.

　　Later, he went on to work as a promoter at a clothing store and learned that the ability to sincerely compliment customers is a trick that directly relates to whether or not the clothes will sell.

　　He is the former president of the NBA league who just stepped down on February 1, 2014 - David Stern, who was at the helm of the NBA marquee for 30 years. Under his outstanding leadership, the NBA's annual revenue today is as high as $5.5 billion, more than 30 times that of 30 years ago, and the television media broadcast revenue is equivalent to 40 times that year. He succeeded in creating such as "Flying Man" Jordan, "Magic" Johnson, "Shark" O'Neal, "Peter Pan "Kobe" and a number of stars, the NBA into a high-speed development of the virtuous circle.

　　Regarding those jobs he held when he was young, David Stern confessed, "Actually, that was all arranged by my father to exercise me. But doing those things really helped me understand that success is learned from everything. Every stage of life, every job we do, has something we need to learn and appreciate carefully. Smart people think that there is learning everywhere and they have to learn it carefully; stupid people think that there is nothing to learn everywhere."