Jokowi and Business World

We will talk about the candidate of the next President for Indonesia, Joko Widodo, or it is easier to say Mr. Jokowi for the Indonesian People. His career as a businessperson is quite popular for the Indonesian people. It is good inspiration to know the experience of Jokowi to get the motivation or inspiration for the people without experience to start their business. Starting a new business is not easy. You have to understand many important aspects in business, and sometimes it can be very hard to get those important things. From the story of Mr Jokowi, we can learn many positive things about his spirit to the business.

Low Capital for Business

Jokowi did not start his own business with the big capital. His first business was started, because he helped his uncle to run the furniture business. Before he knew the furniture business, he worked at a gas station as the main job. Then, he turned his work and started to help his uncle to run the furniture business. He borrowed the money to start his own business from the bank. It means that nobody is perfect from the start. If you want to be successful person, you have to follow the step of Jokowi. He did not afraid to start his business without his own money. He risked his house to borrow the money from the bank.

Hard Worker with Patience

Jokowi has a great patience. He did not give up when he did not see the good results from his business. It is said that his business did not show the good results from the first 9 years of its running time. However, this man did not give up and still did the best to get the results of his business. With his patience, he gave everything he had, including his time. It is showed by many times of his appearances at the night at the factory. It is very usual to see him sleeping at the factory at night. He sacrificed the time for the family at night at the factory, because he wanted to make the best for his family. He wanted to be successful person.

From those explanations about the spirit of Jokowi, we can consider it as the inspiration for the business. If you want to get the successful business, you have to give your time ant the other important things to your business. From the story of Mr. Jokowi, we learned that we would not get anything if we do not do anything. Because of that, we do not need to hear the other’s opinion about what we do, but we have to start to work on something, because it will give results.