Here’s a list of top 10 movies to binge on if you’re an entrepreneur in need for inspiration.
1. Boiler Room
In the movie Ben Affleck comes across as a shrewd businessman who looks at new hirings beyond their face value and tells the naked truth that hits the newly hired personnel to search deeper.
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2. Rocky Balboa
A sort of monologue of Silvestre Stallone is an inspiration at its best. This one has a generic appeal to it but if entrepreneurs are up for taking it on a professional level, it teaches about ‘never giving up’. What Rocky calls ‘life’, listen to it as ‘competitors’ and then you will see how the narrative changes.
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3. Jerry McGuire
This is the opening montage from the film where Tom Cruise is writing a mission statement. If you really want to know what it means to be an entrepreneur, watch this film with a vengeance. This is the moment in film, which sets one thing clear – people play a pivotal role to the success of business. For every entrepreneur, people should matter the most. Be it customers, partners, or employees. The dream of building an empire cannot turn true if you do not have the right people.
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4. Moneyball
Good things in business take time and at that time you are supposed to do the homework. This scene is a perfect example of how things shape up when the knowledge is put to best use. Numbers, reasons, statistics, all these things speaks in business. It is perhaps the only language that a business understands. Applying your knowledge will always unfold patterns in the business which in turn will open your perspective that helps to take a sound decision.
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5. Trading Places
This one’s a short, crisp punch of motivation from Dan Aykroyd to Eddie Murphy who is on the way to his first white-collar job. It is a small moment where Dan pumps up Eddie on how to work inside the World Trade Center . Though a short one, these few lines can work to pump you up for the day and keep you charged as well.
“Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That’s the other guy’s problem.”
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6. Any Given Sunday
This one is perhaps the best inspiring moment of all time in the history of cinema. Al Pacino delivers a stunning speech to the team. Share this with your startup’s A-team if you haven’t already and this will make them understand how every small detail in the business – matters. It is a highly motivational speech on winning and losing, life and death.
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