Entrepreneur tips from Aon Founder Pat Ryan

If you’ve got about 20 minutes to spare, there’s a good video of Aon’s founder talking about entrepreneurship. He founded the company and lead it as its CEO for over 40 years. It’s not often that you see a founder stay at the helm through such tremendous growth. (More on Aon on Wikipedia)

Some key points:

• Differentiate and focus
• Always keep the entrepreneurial mindset and culture
• Maintain integrity
• Client centricity because if you don’t, you’re competitors will
• Focus on frugality
• Hire the passionate and inexperienced over the experieced and unpassionate

Enjoy,
Justin

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