Entrepreneur Secrets - How to Build Wealth and Escape the Rat Race
By Rick Markley
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Starting a business is an adventure. It can be scary, stressful, and painful, but it can also be extremely rewarding on many different levels.
Just about anyone can start a business. You don't need a lot of money; you don't need to be a financial or computer genius. Don't let the idea of starting a business intimidate you.
While nearly anyone can start a business, not everyone can succeed. Being successful requires a good idea, thorough planning, adequate resources, hard work, good execution, and luck. Too many entrepreneurs think that a good idea alone will be enough, but that's rarely the case; planning is an area that's often neglected, but which can give your company an edge over others.
Starting up and running a business will give you a higher quality education in all aspects of business—management, marketing, finance, accounting, human resources, strategy, operations, and more—than just about any endeavor. Running a business will teach you about yourself, forge character, and create capabilities that will be assets to you for the rest of your life. In that respect, there is no failure for the entrepreneur that plans and prepares properly; the only failure is the experience that doesn't teach you valuable lessons.
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, but if you believe it's the right path for you, plan wisely, and good luck with your venture.
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Entrepreneur Secrets - How to Build Wealth and Escape the Rat Race - Rick Markley
Entrepreneur Secrets
How to Build Wealth and Escape the Rat Race
Rick Markley
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Table of Contents
1: Being an Entrepreneur
2: The Main Rules of Business Success
3: Deciding Which Business to Go Into
4: How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Starting a Business
5: The Importance of your Skills
6: Getting Prepared
7: Miscellaneous Tips
Introduction
The word entrepreneur
comes from the French verb entreprendre
meaning to do
or to undertake.
An entrepreneur is someone who does
, someone who acts. Generally, this means putting the time, energy, and money into starting up a business, and being willing to take the risks that come along with it. Whereas most people see problems, entrepreneurs see opportunities. Whereas most people complain about problems, entrepreneurs create solutions.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. Nearly two-thirds of all new jobs created in the past fifteen years have come from small businesses, and over half of these businesses are run from home!
About one out of ten people work for themselves or for a small company. We're all very fortunate to live in a world that encourages the creation and growth of new businesses. The process of opening your own company is relatively easy.
But who can be an entrepreneur?
Anyone can be an entrepreneur. You may be a twenty year old kid with no money in the bank with just a good idea, and you can still build a company from scratch. You don't have to be old to create a business: Google, Facebook, and Dell are all examples of companies that were started by students. You don't need lot of money, either: Microsoft, Nike, Domino's Pizza, Hewlett-Packard, and Eastman Kodak are all examples of companies that were started with ten thousand dollars or less. Don't think that setting up a business is an intimidating task that requires a lot of work, money, and special talent.
The question Who can be an entrepreneur?
wasn't really a fair one, was it? If I asked, Who can play golf?
and you answered Anyone,
you'd be technically right - just about anyone can pick up a club and hit a ball. But the real question should be, Who can play golf well?
Just about anyone can start a company, but being a successful entrepreneur requires a particular type of person, a lot of hard work, and a good measure of luck.
1. Being an Entrepreneur
Many people think that today's entrepreneurs were always entrepreneurs, and that they were born with some entrepreneur gene
that directed them into starting up companies from an early age. In reality, many of the most successful entrepreneurs were people who worked for large corporations for many years, gaining experience, saving money, testing ideas, and making business contacts before venturing off on their own. Just about every large corporation you see today was at one time nothing more than an idea in some entrepreneur's mind.
Entrepreneurial Myths
This brings us to one of the myths about entrepreneurialism. We'll look at a few of the common entrepreneurial myths throughout this section.
MYTH #1: You need money,