The Entrepreneur
The realm of the entrepreneur is an exciting place full of great ideas and the promise of epic financial reward. It is however also an exceptionally high-risk business.
It was famously said that you aren’t a true entrepreneur if you haven’t gone bankrupt at least once! Well Walt Disney shows us how its done, he was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” He went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.
Read more courtesy of incomediary.com Learn how the worlds greatest entrepreneurs faced and overcame some very turbulent times to achieve their goals.
"In your early 20's stepping into the business arena with an idea that YOU have founded is exciting; you eat, sleep that vision and that goal. To look at something which isn't yet tangible which no one else but you can see and then make it a reality (from scratch) is a very beautiful thing. All of the hard work, lack of sleep and embarrassing meetings where people laughed at your vision become a distant memory; and there is no greater glory or satisfaction than proving people wrong. Never underestimate your opponent was my next life lesson. At the top the view may be rosy but there's a chill in the air; success leaves you wide open to attack. This is how I can relate to my HNW and royal clients, their disposition leaves them
consistently open to attack in both their business and personal lives. I'm privileged that my client base consists of people who I have known for many years (since creation of my club) they have already assessed my character and skills and thus their high powered influence generates more clients and more elite projects for me to manage. My club venture exposed me for the first time to what it was like to reach the top through nothing other than sheer hardwork and determination, it also exposed me to what happens when you reach the top and the vultures start to circle. corruption, extortion, fraud, attempted and failed coup it took every last ounce of...
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" What qualifies me as the fountain of knowledge? why do clients heed my advice? "
"The answer quite simply is; my failures.
Since I was very young I had great ideals. I segregated myself from friends because I couldn't understand people who were happy to 'settle' - Well before I even reached my teens family holidays would be spent with my younger sisters playing in the pool and me hiding under a towel reading a copy of silence of the lambs that I'd found in one of those hotel book swap boxes. I always had an inflated ego and sense of entiltement. I belittled teachers at school and was a very challenging child. Although I never got into any serious trouble my narcissistic behaviour continued on into my teens. While most girls in my catholic highschool were sobbing over boys , breakups and the likes I remained emotionless; parties and teenage angst served its purpose but I always had bigger goals. During my teen years I adapted the philosophy attack is the best form of defence. If anyone was stupid enough to cross me; they paid the price."
"Dining with royalty, private jets and members clubs do not make me credible, what makes me credible is what I've endured, what I've lived through and learned from. You can't buy instinct it's something you gain through experience. Nothing makes you advance faster and harder than learning from your own mistakes. " - RB