Serious Entrepreneurs Don’t Stock Up on Toilet Paper
Most top marketing entrepreneurs have their rags-to-riches stories: from waiting tables to millionaire by the age of 28 from living on the streets to owning multiple homes.
While all these stories arouse feelings hope and inspiration, the trek up the road to success is really a bit more nasty.
Take into consideration Mike Michalowicz’s approach and try asking yourself this, “A ‘Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’, is that me?”
Real entrepreneurialism, as Mike puts it is like this bathroom experience: You are doing your “business”, and when it’s done, you suddenly find out that there are only 3 sheets of toilet paper left! Out of necessity, you are then forced to be creative and inventive to be able to leave the bathroom smelling fresh.
He adds that successful and serious entrepreneurs are not those who sit around and wait for someone to hand them a “roll of toilet paper”.
They take matters into their own hands and search within reach that they use. If you must, dig through the garbage, or use the roll of cardboard instead and move on.
Serious Entrepreneurs will never sit around, whining excuses. Nor do they have patience for those who do so.
Words you’ll never hear from a Serious Entrepreneur:
“Right now, I don’t have enough money.”
“I’m not smart enough for that.”
“I can’t. I’m too busy. I don’t have enough time.”
“It takes too long to build a business.”
“There’s too much risk involved.”
“I’m too old for that.”
Serious entrepreneurs don’t just sit and dream about when their big break would come, but they get off their butts and make it happen.
They don’t sit on their money, waiting for it to grow on their own. They’ll go out and make their own moneymaking ventures, whether it’s selling lemonade by the street, or setting microchips in Silicone Valley.
On a lighter note, most millionaires live frugal lives: Warren Buffett, for example, is third on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the world, but still he remains living in the house in Omaha, Nebraska that he bought for $31,500 forty years ago.
Successful Entrepreneurs do not multi-task. They’re like bulldogs: they’ll latch on to one thing until it’s good and done proper.
Nor are they perfectionists. They’re the ones who say “Good is good enough.”
They know that speed and money go together.
They know that by the time they’ve perfected their sales letter, website, or ad campaign, their competition will have already capitalized on their idea and left them in the dust.
They don’t spend the bulk of their time thinking, planning, and revising they take action.
They aren’t afraid of risksthey take calculated measures to reduce risks.
Founder of Feedburner.com Dick Costolo once said, “The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.”
Determined entrepreneurs need no toilet paper.
Why? Most likely they have a spare napkin in their pocket with their next million dollar business plan scribbled on its back.