Ways to Be a Successful BusinessmanFabrizio Domingos Costa Ferreira

Successful BusinessmanFabrizio Domingos Costa Ferreira, a business executive operating across several industries, has facilitated numerous international deals over the course of his career. Serving as a Partner in Brazilian venture capital and private equity firm BR Par Venture Partners, he leads the firm’s private equity division. He has held this position since October of 2011, during which time he has negotiated multiple deals throughout the oil and gas, entertainment, tourism, and energy industries.

His recent deals include a €36 million agreement with EcoSolifer AG, which will result in Brazil’s first solar module manufacturing plant. Additionally, a €887 million deal with Atlantica Brasil has made possible a major development project that will integrate tourism, leisure, and services at a location that will be known as Quinta dos Ganchos. Constantly seeking new opportunities for Brazilian economic development, Fabrizio Domingos Costa Ferreira is currently negotiating deals in the show business and cosmetics sectors in addition to the oil and gas markets of the Middle East.

You must be passionate about what you're trying to achieve

Therefore you’re willing to giving up a sizable part of your awakening hours for the strategy you’ve develop. Enthusiasm will fire up the identical strength inside some others that enroll in a person because you create a team to achieve this particular endeavor.

Along with love, equally your team along with your clients will probably really have confidence in what we making the effort to complete.

Focus Intensely On Your Opportunity

This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions.

Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation in other words, companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. Stay focused on the mission.

Success Only Comes From Hard Work

We all know that there is no such thing as overnight success. Behind every overnight success lies years of hard work and sweat. People with luck will tell you there’s no easy way to achieve success and that luck comes to those who work hard. Successful entrepreneurs always give 100 percent of their efforts to everything they do. If you know you are giving your best effort, you’ll never have any reason for regrets. Keep your focus on things you can control.

Road To Success Is Going To Be Long, So Remember To Enjoy The Journey

Everyone will teach you to focus on goals, but successful people focus on the journey and celebrate the milestones along the way. Is it worth spending a large part of your life trying to reach the destination if you didn’t enjoy the journey along the way? Won’t the team you attract to join your mission also enjoy the journey more as well? Wouldn’t it be better for all of you to have the time of your life during the journey, even if the destination is never reached?

Trust Your Gut Instinct More Than Any Spreadsheet

There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. We’ve all had experiences in business where our heart told us something was wrong while our brain was still trying to use logic to figure it all out. Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Be Flexible But PersistentEvery Businessman has to be agile in order to perform. You have to continually learn and adapt as new information becomes available. At the same time you have to remain persistent to the cause and mission of your enterprise. That’s where that faint voice becomes so important, especially when it is giving you early warning signals that things are going off-track. Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to that voice and staying persistent in driving for success because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that’s disguised as failure.

Rely On Your TeamIt’s a simple fact: No individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complementary skill sets. Businessman are an optimistic bunch of people and it’s very hard for them to believe that they are not good at certain things.

It takes a lot of soul searching to find your own core skills and strengths. After that, find the smartest people you can who complement your strengths. It’s easy to get attracted to people who are like you; the trick is to find people who are not like you but who are good at what they do—and what you can’t do.

Be Honest And Show Integrity

I can’t imagine anyone ever achieving long-term success without having honesty and integrity. These two qualities need to be at the core of everything we do.

Everybody has a conscience but too many people stop listening to it. There is always that faint voice that warns you when you are not being completely honest or even slightly off track from the path of integrity. Be sure to listen to that voice.

Appreciate Your Success By Giving Back

Don't ever forget this part, arguably the most important part, of defining yourself as a true success. By the time you achieve your success, lots of people will have helped you along the way. You’ll learn, as I have, that you rarely get a chance to help the people who helped you because in most cases, you don’t even know who they were.

The only way to pay back the debts we owe is to help people we can help and hope they will go on to help more people. It’s our responsibility to do “good” with the resources we have available.  

Ways to Be a Successful BusinessmanFabrizio Domingos Costa Ferreira