If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur, You Have To Be Willing To Take The Bagel [View All]

[Deja Q]

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Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process. My friend didn't want to stand in line, so he opted to abandon the bagel. I wanted the bagel, so I opted to avoid the line.

I could see that he would rather not have a bagel than break the rules. So I pushed him, "come on, we don't need to stand in line, lets just get a bagel." He refused. He pushed me back, "come on, lets just go...the line's too long."

Realizing we saw the world differently, I walked up to the tables, leaned through the line, put my hand in one of the boxes, pulled out two bagels and walked back to him with our breakfast. Not a single person in the line said anything to me or even seemed to care.

Entrepreneurs smile when I tell this story. Non-entrepreneurs like to tell me that I shouldn't do things like that, because if everyone did things like that, we'd have anarchy. And they'd be right...IF everyone had what it took to be an entrepreneur. But everyone doesn't. Which is why most people don't start their own businesses and why most people are perfectly fine to stand in line.


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Yup, that's the solution. Shed your scruples, erase your ethics, mash the morals. That guy is condoning something that's very uncivilized.