Entrepreneurship

1. Entrepreneurship

2. Who works where / why?
• 95% of workers in this country go to work
everyday for someone else.
• Of the 95%, when surveyed
– 80% said “I’d rather go to work for myself.”

3. Who works where / why?
• 3 major reasons people don’t go to work for
themselves and start their own business:
1 They don’t have the money
2 They don’t know what to do
- They don’t have any training in running their own
business
3 They don’t dare give up what they are doing to
try something that may or may not work

4. Quick Quotes
• “How you think determines what you do,
and what you do determines your destiny.”
• “It’s not what we are that limits us, it is
what we think we are not.”

5. Attitude of an Inventor
5 major points - Thomas Edison
1 Definite knowledge of what one wishes to
achieve
2 Fix your mind on that purpose with
persistence and begin searching for what
you seek
• making use of all the accumulated knowledge
on the subject
- which you have or
- you can acquire from someone else

6. Attitude of an Inventor
5 major points - continued
3 You must keep on searching no matter how
many times you meet with disappointment
4 You must refuse to be influenced by the fact
that someone else may have tried the same
idea without success
5 You must keep yourself sold on the idea that
the solution to your problem exists
somewhere and you are going to find it

7. Do you have what it takes?
5 Questions
1 Do other peoples failures annoy or challenge
you?
2 Do you use people or do you cultivate them?
3 Do you direct people or do you develop them?
4 Do you criticize people or do you encourage
them?
5 Do you shun or seek-out the person with a
special need or problem?

8. To be or not to be?
• A lot of people never move beyond their
self-imposed limitations
• Come to the place where you change your
thinking process
– Houston aquarium story