Why is it So Hard to Become an Entrepreneur?
I’ve been an employee for 18 years and an entrepreneur for 50. Being an entrepreneur is better.

The gurus at the Harvard Business School might disagree. In a tongue-twisting article, one wrote, “Of the hundreds of thousands of business ventures that entrepreneurs launch every year, many never get off the ground. Others fizzle after rocket starts.”

So, he implies, entrepreneurship is riskier than an honest job, ergo harder. I call that bull#@$%, knowing so many people who were unemployed after their employers, many of them huge members of that exclusive called Fortune 500, decided to downsize or rightsize or go bust.

The article continues: “The problems entrepreneurs face every day would overwhelm most managers.”

So, being an entrepreneur is, again, harder than being a 9-to fiver. Bull#@$%, again. Managers did not become managers because they wilt under pressure.

In my Little Black Book for Entrepreneurs and Those who Want to Be, I posited: I wrote this book to share my lessons learned — my 12 drivers — as I, an ordinary person with ordinary talents and smarts, journeyed to an extraordinary life of extreme happiness. I am your template; any sentient, curious, and ambitious person can emulate my journey at any time.

You?
['Pete Geissler']
['Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Entrepreneur']