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Jensen Huang on Evan Carmichael - Believe: Unlocking Your True Potential

Jensen Huang's Top 10 Rules for Success

Jul 28, 2026 · 29 min

This motivational compilation offers a few crisp management maxims but little that is distinctive beside Huang’s fuller discussions of conviction, strategy, and NVIDIA’s gaming origins elsewhere in the corpus. Casual fans can skip it; completionists may appreciate the concise strategy formulation.

Strategy is not words. Strategy is action. Yeah. And so if the company has a set of strategies, but the people's actions, their top five things are not that, then they're obviously not executing the strategy. And so the strategy turns out isn't what I say, it's what they do.
from this episode

Jensen Huang discusses the difficulty of building ambitious companies, the need to prioritize time, and the importance of translating strategy into action. He also describes business fundamentals and the unconventional perspective that led NVIDIA to pursue graphics for video games before a large market was widely recognized.