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Entrepreneurs are dreamers, ambitious and sacrifice a ‘normal life’ in search of a greater good. Becoming an entrepreneur takes a vast skill set and many characteristics engrained in an individual’s makeup.

Often times it is the thought of entrepreneurship which people find the most intriguing. But when placed in a free world rather than take the opportunity, they gravitate towards the known and structured 9–5.

Creating and executing a plan or idea from scratch is incredibly challenging. Not only must your drive and persistence be turned up but this ambition must be balanced with a strong sense of self awareness and patience.

It is the ability to connect the dots and see things from a different point of view that allows the “entrepreneur” to succeed.

The repetition of learning, creating, executing, failing, succeeding, learning, creating, executing, failing, succeeding - is not for the weak of heart. This process is mentally, emotionally, and physically taxing.

For the entrepreneurial minded person, though, it is what they live for. They sacrifice, knowing that obstacles are only road bumps and lessons learned. They will achieve their vision. Without this relentless solution focused mindset - you will fail. And for the entrepreneur, failure is not an option.

Entrepreneurship does not fit everyone on this earth. Some people are built to follow - they find joy, pleasure, and passion in doing something routine, maybe task oriented. They like to be led and guided. These people are also needed in the world because without them the entrepreneur would not be able to build a strong team.

I believe entrepreneurship is accomplished by dedication and focus to a cause. You will be best at that which you commit yourself. For some, this dedication to something is not in the direction of becoming an entrepreneur. And this why not everyone becomes one.

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Thank you …An assumption a lot of people have that if you don't make at least 40000 a year, that you're a poor piece of shit not worthy of their attention.

Some people set that threshold as high as 500,000. Some set it by the car or teeth you drive around.

Most people are also lured by the short term gain and can't bare temporary poverty. They want the nice car, hot girlfriend, etc… while doing the least amount of work. That's what makes government work is so appealing (in reality a bunch of these jokers need to be shot for being inept).

When you add up all these factors on top of the fact that starting a company (esp. on the scale people typically think of when they think entrepreneur i.e big business, and that there are no guarantees, people naturally cling to what is easy.

Would anyone care if I'm rich? That's the thing about it: no one will, they'll just want to scam me out of it like when I had money.

How hard is it being an entrepreneur?

Try living in an area where 95% of jobs are low wage, the other 4.8% you have a moral aversion to, leaving you go to fight tooth and neck for handful that you're overqualified for leaving you with no cash flow on top of VCs that want to be promised the moon before investing a cent.

"No one cares" is probably a contributing factor. Several of my formerly close relatives had a toxic, defeatist attitude of always trying to bring me down. In my book, that's a fate worse than homelessness.

Being an entrepreneur isn't for the weak of heart. It's much easier to scam people and try to make it legal.

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Being an entrepreneur means you are by default an optimist: you believe your business idea will flourish into something bigger. Startup entrepreneurs have doses of this optimism in high quantities.

Founders of companies are not a homogenous bunch. They come in many different flavors, ages, backgrounds and personality types. They can be introverted, extraverted, conservative or flamboyant.

Young entrepreneurs throw caution to the wind and approach their startup with boundless energy with little tying them down. Older entrepreneurs use accumulated capital, experience and extensive networks to make their businesses fly. Wealthy entrepreneurs leverage capital, those less wealthy substitute capital for resourcefulness.

Not all entrepreneurs fit the Silicon Valley stereotype. There are corporate entrepreneurs that take on risk to create massively scaled businesses using the corporate machinery and money behind them.

Endeavor, an international incubator organisation associated with Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman, defines four types of entrepreneurs: the rocketship, transformer, diamond and star.

Rocket ship entrepreneurs are strategic thinkers who relentlessly focus on efficiency and making things cheaper, faster and better. Transformer entrepreneurs are ambitious leaders operating an established business in a traditional industry aspiring to reach next level of growth through innovation and differentiation

The diamond entrepreneur is a big dreamer who starts innovative and disruptive companies, which often create a brand new way of solving problems. The star entrepreneurs are big, charismatic personalities who start branded companies, often consumer focused and creative in nature.

In all their diversity, there is a critical quality most entrepreneurs share. Apple founder Steve Jobs called it "pure perseverance". It’s perseverance through the intense ups and downs, failures and challenges of building a company from nothing. People often do not succeed because they simply give up prematurely.

However, the successful entrepreneur keeps trying in the face of failure, mistakes, people saying “no” or telling them their business “won’t work”. These entrepreneurs just keep bashing down doors with gritty determination until they get what they want.

In reality a business is a series of many mistakes and failures, and it’s just the 10 successes out of the 1000 failures that move you forward. These are terrible ratios, and when you are in the thick of it, it may feel like you are not succeeding, but you are…

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An entrepreneur is a go-getter. Someone who sees a problem and tries to find a solution, no matter how crazy or different that solution may be. Someone who, when they find a solution, gets serious about it and try to make that happen any way possible. An entrepreneur knows how to take risks, but they also know when to say no.

Most of all, an entrepreneur is someone who deeply believes in him or herself. Not everyone could be one, there are people that can’t not even manage themselves to overpass distractions and pleasures. An entrepreneur is committed to make things happen.

An entrepreneur finds solutions and takes the lead to obtain what is necessary to do what needs to be done. Also to adapt, learn and take decisions, an entrepreneur has to be a very focus, also, a very self-motivated individual, full of passion for their cause.

An entrepreneur is someone with a mindset combined by grit and compulsion and who accepts the high risk of failure to try to see one of life’s toughest goals through: to succeed in running a profitable business.

Everyone has their own different reasons for why they want to be an entrepreneur: to make lots of money, to be free, to build innovations, solve problems, to change the world, to be their own boss.

An entrepreneur is someone who is willing to personally risk more than the average person knowing that failure could mean disastrous consequences yet understand that success means that additional wealth and value is created for society with great personal rewards.

Failure could mean homelessness, hunger, loss of personal financial assets and loss of family, friends, and mates and could even end in prison or worse.

Unfortunately from personal experience, most entrepreneurs will fail. If they survive their first failure, many will never try again as failure can hurt and leave psychological scars like a bullet wound and create a fear of taking risks ever again.

You are and so am I if we take the time to dream and plan to become one and stay on the path to being one if that is truly what we have in our hearts to be.

Aside from this an entrepreneur is a driven person for what one wants and takes every avenue that it takes to become independently wealthy minus the bad things. In my experience going the crooked or bad route leaves a not very well accomplished entrepreneur.

An entrepreneur is one that knows how to appreciate working a bit to cherish the rewards. They don’t like things to come easy they have to feel their worth in hard work for most things that they accomplish in order to really appreciate it and hold on to it. In this note I say again you are an entrepreneur inside and I am to.

If we believe and truly believe it, WE CAN ACHIEVE IT!

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