Becoming an entrepreneur is easy, just try to take something to market.
Becoming a successful entrepreneur is a different story. Almost all successful entrepreneurs have failed in the past, but are driven to succeed and will keep trying and learning from mistakes.
To go from nothing to something big almost always requires help. To get help requires convincing others to sacrifice, which takes extreme confidence and salesmanship. The people that help are also looking to profit from helping, but every stakeholder will want a disproportionate share or more than is available because they believed the sales pitch. This almost always leads to some stakeholders becoming very unhappy. The successful entrepreneur is the one who comes out of the fray reaping profits and maintaining power and control, usually at everyone else's expense. To do this usually requires a very thick skin and an ability to use people without experiencing crippling remorse.
Many entrepreneurs start out trying to be nice guys, but they either fail or they change into not-so-nice guys. It is not impossible to be a nice guy and a successful entrepreneur at the same time, it is just very rare.
If you really want to be a successful entrepreneur, be prepared for it to take a toll on your soul.
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