People often say it takes hard word and a lot of luck to succeed as an entrepreneur. While I’m sure some entrepreneurs occasionally do win the buy-out lottery (1 in 1,000,000), every single successful entrepreneur I know did it through skill and hard work. There was lots of luck, good and bad. Economy up, economy down. But in the end it made no impact on the inevitability of their success. Luck is always there… it’s the constant. Everything else you do as an entrepreneur is what defines the outcome.
A close friend of mine once said of Jerry Garcia… “He just gets lucky.” When you’re effortlessly good at what you do it always seems lucky. But to achieve that effortlessness is the greatest skill you can attain.
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