Two's Company

You must have heard that slogan of a multi billion dollar company which says, an idea can change your life. You must have heard it, again and again in life to be successful in life, all you need is an idea, that's all. And Idea can change your life and it does in so many ways than one. However, we know that, idea alone can't do anything. Some say perfect execution of idea is much more important than idea itself. There are some who pick a simple idea and convert it into a gold, lets say the choice Warren Buffett makes to pick a company to buy shares.  For that perfect execution of the idea or any idea to convert into gold all you need is one person you is easy to talk with, who makes it easier to walk with that idea in which you have so strong  believe on to make all the difference in life.  

You must have heard of the team of Bill Gates and Paul Allen and then Steve Ballmer of Microsoft company. Anyone from the tech world or outside of it must have heard of name Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to form an Apple company and then Tim Cook who became the CEO of the company. Larry Page and Sergey Brin who formed Google company always comes together. Rohit Shetty and Ajay Devgan, who surprised the whole world in India with their first four sequel of movies in India that did tremendously good in box office. Movie goers also knows the duos name like Karan Johar and Shahrukh Khan for their series of successful movies to the world, mostly serving only NRI as Farah Khan puts it. Comedy movie lovers knows the domestic name of David Dhawan and Govinda for giving many movies that entertained the Indian diaspora around the globe. Beyonce and her husband and Jay Zee and her successful singing career, Celine Dion with her liquid platinum voice and her husband who is also her manger, Rene's ability to help her grow like bigger than life. I am sure you also have heard of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen for their billion dollar industry to sell products to twins, which started when they were just six years of age.

I just was watching a BBC journalist trying to understand Warren Buffett whom he found very simple, down to earth yet super rich and brilliant mind. His company is richer than the many countries combined GDP yet his team in Berkshire consist of only twenty people who looks after 150 billion dollar business worldwide. Sure they have more than 1000 other people working in many nation to take care the thousands of its shareholders,  but; team to handle the massive 150 billion is just twenty.

What is interesting to pay attention here is, business partner to be successful could be be your classmate, whether you meet them when you are in school like Bill Gates met Paul Allen in school when he was just 12 years of age or Sergey Brin met Larry Page in College when both of them were there to do their Ph.D. The partner could be the one you can find in your work force like Directors meet their actors with whom they can stick with multiple projects to spin money or record company signing up the singer[s] for multiple album deal or keep them as your wife or spouse for mutual benefit. It could be husband and wife, it could be friends or sibling at times, who can help you to execute the idea what you have in mind to make money and be successful in life. It may not be business partner all the time but picking life partner right is equally important as picking up the business partners. Let's look into those names more closely to understand the gravity of twos company which can play a huge role in your life achievements.

When you know the good company I would like to talk about some company that went wrong after a good partnership only for short term. You must have heard about Mariah Carey's romance, marriage and divorce with Tommy Mottola, who was executive of Sony Music. It was that time, when she was high and rising and hitting all the blockbuster charts. This teaming up to let's make money worked only for the short term. I think both lost in this case. He may have denied having affair and paying her, her share of emotional investment and he may have won some money but in long run it did not serve for both the party. There was time Shania Twain was also high and rising and suddenly her liquid voice of gold lost in the wilderness of the real world cruel reality of teaming up with wrong company to gain something in life.

Being a Neali you must be aware of the team of MAHA jodi. Hari Bansha Describe the friendship of 37 years and counting to sugar cane and madan Krishna describe it as needle and thread without which one can't go alone. If you read both of them in different books or watch them in any interview both would admit candidly that the friendship lasted because staying paid them well. Had it not been money get going together would not have lasted this long. Another important thing  is without respect in a team work it also wouldn't have lasted this long. 

For long term relationship respect among the partners, compatibility and comfort feeling around the partner is more important than just working for money. Karan Johar says, I don't mind taking second position when it comes to Shahrukh Khan. He also says I can say Gauri to shut up but that is something I can never say to Shahrukh. Can you guess how much money it made to Celine Dion when she decided to marry the man who is much older than her ? At the prime of her life she was hitting the chart buster and she is still doing good. Do you know that twin sisters made billion dollars by the time they were just 18 years old ?

Even though we do not know who will be our partner in business, but if we put money first then the end of partnership will be only for short term so all the failed partnership only tells us why its so important to pick business partner wisely.