I personally believe that this is a required passion of pretty much any entrepreneur, or
at least any successful entrepreneur.
Not exact matches
As attorney Ron Goldie says: «The sign of a
successful entrepreneur is that he or she is the decision - maker, but I think it's imperative that
entrepreneurs have
at least one professional who knows everything there is to know — one who can give them an independent assessment of the obstacles ahead.
Conventional wisdom,
at least among young or aspiring
entrepreneurs, is that there is some magic bullet or some way to hack your way to success, and all you have to do is find it... and I know Dave feels the way to be
successful is to work hard and kick ass and be so good no one can ignore you.
I've seen that once the
entrepreneurs become acclimatized to accepting that the
successful outcome is
at least in part a direct result of their efforts, the syndrome dematerializes.
I remember many year ago, when I was starting out as an
entrepreneur, reading about many
successful entrepreneurs who had ADD, or
at least thought they did, and feeling left out, almost jealous.
To help us in our quest, I asked ten
successful entrepreneurs, who have all created companies that are worth
at least fifty million dollars, what their biggest business mistake was.
I really don't think luck has much to do with long term results of
successful entrepreneurs,
at least not relative to their competitors (I've often heard the following argument: «Well, Buffett invested during the greatest period of prosperity in US history»... okay, well that's true, even though he's seen 3 different 50 % bear markets.
It may seem surprising, perhaps, but there are a lot of people
at least at Realogy that take their mission — to help real estate
entrepreneurs be more
successful — very seriously.