Posts Tagged ‘opportunity’
Entrepreneurs Are Not Lucky
Last week I was talking with someone and made a comment along these lines:
“I’ve been really lucky with Doba and the success I’ve had as an entrepreneur.”
He immediately said to not take offense, but that it bugs him when successful people say they’re “lucky”, because I tried when other people sat at home and didn’t do anything. He had done the same thing for his successful website development and design business: he went out and made it happen. In his mid-sized town, about 50% of the people he knows always talk about starting a business, but never do.
I think 50% is about ballpark for people I know too. Maybe it’s the debt, the
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Unique Service + Hard Work = Opportunity
A couple days ago, I got a knock on my door, and a guy that was wearing blue rubber gloves was there when I opened it. He said something like: “I lost my job a while back, and got sick of not working, so I’m out providing a service today. I’ll clean out your garbage cans for $10 each, or two for $15. I use a pressure washer and industrial strength bleach and I literally climb inside them and scrub them by hand.”
I hired him on the spot, for two reasons: 1. my garbage cans were nasty; 2. I’d have hired him anyway, because here’s a guy down on his luck making his own.
We got talking after he
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