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LIQUI MOLY Managing Director Ernst Prost speaks on the will to win in this letter to his colleagues as the CEO of the German oil and additive specialist draws
parallels between entrepreneurial activities, self-motivation and sport.
“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” Or, to use a sports idiom: when the game gets hard, the hard nuts get cracking. I love this saying and I adopted it a long, long time ago.
At the TSV Lauterbach sports club, in the youth team and afterwards in the first team (but mostly in the reserve team …) Football in the C district league. Further relegation was not possible, and promotion was not really working out 😉
We still played as if our lives depended on it. Down with your socks and then attack the ball and, with it, the opponent. Losing was hell and winning was heaven. But there was nothing to be lost or won. It was just all about us and our desire to play and our passion for kicking about.
How do you transfer this passion to work? How do you manage to do your work with the same joy and pleasure with which you pursue your hobby? Good question, isn’t it?
I think a lot in life depends on each individual, how much desire they have to develop such enthusiasm and how much fire is within them, which then erupts by itself. I don’t think much of trying to motivate people. Either someone wants to or doesn’t.
However: Frustration is loss of enthusiasm. So, please don’t get frustrated so quickly – and certainly not over little things. I can set the basic conditions, but the rest has to come by itself. With chants like “Just believe, you can do it!”, you may be able to manipulate children for a while, but you cannot really motivate adults.
Enthusiasm and passion, the joy of the game, fun with your hobby or at work, and the desire to win … It’s so cool! Believe me, it’s in all of us. You just have to let it out and let it happen! At the time, I also ran marathons.
I also have a bold theory about this sport: It is not about strength, not about endurance, and certainly not about speed, but only about the ability to suffer … Well, that’s debatable. You must keep on going and be willing to torture yourself … You can’t make something out of nothing!
Boxing I also loved – but I’d rather not tell you what I was thinking. I don’t want you to start wondering about me … 🙂 This much I will say: you have to be able to take some pain. Sometimes less, sometimes more.
The boards you are sent down on are not there for lying on, but for getting up from again … Blindly thrashing around you is just as ineffective as neglecting your cover. Defense and attack belong together. Neither can be neglected.
And without fitness, without strength and above all without the will to win, you don’t even need to step into the ring. You see – sport has a lot to do with our work, our company and our approach … and one last thing: Sportsmen play hard but always play fair!
I wish you a wonderful weekend! With sporting greetings,
