7 Boss Moves you can Learn from Rick Ross’s latest book – The Perfect Day To Boss Up: A Hustler’s Guide To Building Your Empire
Hip hop legend and entrepreneur Rick Ross released his latest book – The Perfect Day To Boss Up: A Hustler’s Guide To Building Your Empire. The book hit the shelf yesterday under the print of Harpercollins. Ross’s book chronicles his earlier years in hip hop game to where he is in life today. He also touch base and share his business advice to anyone who’s running or planning to venture into business venture.
Here is 7 Boss Moves you can learn from from Rick Ross’s latest book!
1. Don’t Keep All Your Fabergé Eggs In One Basket
Aside from being the CEO of Maybach Music, Ross also owns 25 Wingstop locations, is a franchise owner of Checkers and Rally’s restaurants, has a partnership with spirits brands Luc Belaire and Bumbu, has his own men’s hair and beard grooming line, RICH by Rick Ross, is in partnership with Rap Snacks and Verzuz, has ventured into the cannabis industry with Cookies brand, and even has a partnership with CTRL Meal Replacement shakes.
2. Align Yourself With Brands That Are Consistent With Who You Are
“If I sat down at a meeting, I tell whoever’s at the table that’s going to make their presentation to not say one word and I take [the proposal]. Am I inspired naturally? Is this something that I want to be a part of? Don’t sell it to me. Is this going to be something that I’m like, ‘damn, I can’t wait to tell the homies we did this?’”
“Navigate towards what you love the most. Do you LOVE this? Because it’s going to be hard for you to fail. When I’m involved in something I love, I’m the first one in the room, and the last one to leave. That’s just a habit. I make sure I outwork everybody else that’s around.”
3. No Job Is Too Small For A Boss
In his book, The Perfect Day To Boss Up, Rick Ross says, “If you do more than what you’re paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than what you do,” and his work ethic shows.
“Ain’t nothing too big nor too small for a real boss,” Ross told AfroTech. “I’ll walk into one of my franchisees, and if the floors need to be swept, I’ll grab the broom to sweep it rather than calling somebody over from the register. Nah, I’ll do it myself. You know what I mean? That’s just the approach.”
4. Surround Yourself With The Right Team
Rozay does not handle business alone. In fact, in Chapter 5 of The Perfect Day To Boss Up, he makes it very clear just how important it is to have the right people around you.
“I may be the head of this empire, but all of these people make up the backbone,” he writes. “A backbone consists of many vertebrae, and if just one of them is out of alignment, the whole body suffers.”
5. Always Remain A Student Of The Game
“There’s a wisdom that you gain from these losses, through these experiences,” he says. “And that’s why I put the book together, just to share that.”
“One of my big homies, he’s actually served 40 years now, he told me back then, ‘homie, whatever you eat when you got $10, you should still eat when you got $10,000. Nobody should know the difference.’ And I applied that same game right now.”
6. Bosses Hold Themselves Accountable
“As an artist, you’re on a whole nother platform where millions of people have their eyes on you,” he says. “That means there are millions of potential ways people could absorb the statements you make.”
Ross explains, “When you were a mixtape artist, there were things you could do and say to entertain the streets. It changes [once you get a larger platform] and you have to take that into consideration. And the bigger you get, you have to remind yourself of the reason you’re here — to make incredible music and do it for incredible fans, incredible people.”
7. If You Want To Be A Boss, You First Must Be A Worker
“Being a boss is about being in the driver’s seat of your life, regardless of whether you’re riding in a Bugatti or your momma’s Ford Focus,” he writes.
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