CHAPTER TEN
If You Want to Be an Entrepreneur, Be One
There are a lot of books out there on entrepreneurship, as well as countless seminars you can attend. Not one of them will make you an entrepreneur. As I look back on my career and think about the hundreds of entrepreneurs I have met, and I consider what led me to become an entrepreneur, I see several interwoven threads. These threads have run through this book, but let me recap.
One, you have to be an expert or be amazingly passionate in your marketplace or industry. Remember the comment in Chapter Eight that it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in any one area?
Experts get more choices and moreopportunities. What are you an expert in?
Second, you have to develop a tolerance level ...
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