Transcript
Introduction
Business is not something to be tried on. It's not a distraction, not an affair, not a momentary fling. Business marries you, you sleep with it, eat with it, think about it much of your time. It is in a very real sense an act of love. If it isn't an act of love, it's merely work, not business.
What makes a successful entrepreneur? Is it talent? Well, perhaps. Although I've known many enormously successful people who are not gifted in any outstanding way, not blessed with particular talent.
Is it then intelligence? Certainly, intelligence helps, but it's not necessarily the education or the kind of intellectual reasoning needed to graduate from the Wharton School of Business that are essential. How many of your grandfathers came here from the old country and made a mark in America without the language, money or context? What then is the mystical ingredient?