{"id":5593,"date":"2011-11-02T01:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T07:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2011-11-02T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T07:14:49","slug":"guy-laliberte-from-street-performer-to-billionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/guy-laliberte-from-street-performer-to-billionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy LaLiberte &#8211; From Street Performer to Billionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3QVjreXFoJk<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Walters interviews Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy LaLiberte.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;One of the things that makes billionaires successful is their reaction to failure.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is such a great quote. Maybe not in the context of billionaires, but in the context that to be successful there is usually a lot of risks and with that comes occasional failure. It&#8217;s how we react and use those failures that can help propel us to each new chapter and goal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had posted several months ago a quote from a movie producer (I think it was Tim Burton) who said, paraphrased: &#8220;How we succeed as adults depends on how much we believe the bad things people told us as children.&#8221; Or, what we can achieve depends on whether or not we believe the people that say we can&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve worked for Cirque Du Soleil for almost four years now and have met Guy LaLiberte. I don&#8217;t know him well, but I would take a guess that money is not what fueled his initial drive and work &#8211; it was about creativity and creating interesting art. He&#8217;s pretty dang inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3QVjreXFoJk Barbara Walters interviews Cirque Du Soleil founder Guy LaLiberte. &#8220;One of the things that makes billionaires successful is their reaction to failure.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal That is such a great quote. Maybe not in the context of billionaires, but in the context that to be successful there is usually a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-1sd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5594,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5593\/revisions\/5594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}