If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur, You Have To Be Willing To Take The Bagel

[Deja Q]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-sinek/if-you-want-to-be-an-entr_b_312731.html

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.

[caballero]

1. The bagels were free anyway, what's the problem?

This is just another misguided piece of psychobabble that benefits nobody.

[Deja Q]

3. Spin is the way of the world.

It benefits the author, especially if people pay for it.

[YoungAndOutraged]

2. That guy "teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people"?

It does say the bagels were free, but still, what a stupid way to try and explain something.

[Deja Q]

4. I re-read the article and, amazingly, I didn't see the F-word the first time 'round...

Still doesn't justify things.

On the plus side, it's not walmart during Black Friday...

[Forkboy]

5. I was told the second part of that subject line before....

but it nothing to do with being an entrepreneur....

:hide:

[ChromeFoundry]

6. This guy is an idiot...

"Which is why most people don't start their own businesses and why most people are perfectly fine to stand in line."

Most people don't take the plunge into trying to start up a business venture because they cannot afford the health care costs on their own. It is much more expensive when you are outside of a group plan.

"Not a single person in the line said anything to me or even seemed to care."

When he walked away, they all called him an asshole. In the business world, he would never get return business because he would treat his clients in the same manner. One thing to remember: Just because the other people were nice enough not to stick a size-11 boot in his ass, doesn't mean they didn't care.

[Cirque du So-What]

7. Funny criteria for measuring entrepreneurship potential

The author makes this characteristic, which he believes is necessary to be an entrepreneur, seem more like a personality disorder than an admirable trait. He rationalizes his greedy behavior by telling us that it's alright for him - along with 'mavericks' with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement - to flaunt the rules of civilized society because *everyone* doesn't do it. Just another variation on the theme, 'if you want to get ahead in life, you've got to be an asshole,' and there's no doubt in my mind that he IS an asshole.

[TxRider]

8. That's not an "enterpreneur", that is simply an "asshole"..

Entrepreneurs see the long line for bagels, realize there is extra demand and an opportunity, and show up the next day selling bagels.

This guy is an idiot, and in business would be a cheat and likely a criminal.