Why People Are Not Business Owners
Have you ever wondered why there are many problems and fewer solutions? Furthermore, have you wondered why there are more employees than employers? Here are some reasons why many are not business owners:-
- The schools that majority of us attended are fashioned to produce employees and not employers of labor.
The courses studied in many schools are not carved to inculcate the spirit of adventure or entrepreneurialism in the minds of the students.
On their graduation, they only search for jobs to do instead of starting a business.
The old slogan has always been go to school, read your books, get a good grade, and a nice job latter. - There is a high level of the fear of the unknown among the greater percentage of our populace.
People want security and entitlements spelt out clearly before they identify with you.
They are afraid of losing their jobs and regularized income.
They want a steady take home package, vacations, overtime payments, sick leave, pension and other attachments on the employers' budget.
The reality of scarcity and failures scares them to the bones thus making them accept whatsoever that is offered and stay glued to it. - Entrepreneurs are risk takers, they always attempt the impossible.
The word NO is not an answer to them nor is it a final word.
The series of calculated attempts they make and fail teaches them better as they correct it subsequently and become better business people.
Losing money does not stop them from another trail.
Most people are not internally built to achieve this as they cling tenaciously to the little funds at their disposal. - Many are not business owners today because fundamentally they cannot think for themselves.
For the general class thinking is the hardest thing to do, but for a business owner, thinking is their only prowess.
This is why many are follower to a negligible few leaders. - There is this thought that entrepreneurs are born naturally.
The notion that many of today's entrepreneurs are offspring of former business owners made so many individuals to shy away from competing with them.
Unknown to many the founding fathers once made this fortune before bequeathing to their heirs.
Many of today's millionaires are in their first generation and self made.
No one is born to be anything.
Only your training and decision to hit the topmost rung of the ladder makes you what you will be. - There is this belief that the government will do everything for people and that only those that are connected can own businesses.
The government today is limited in what it can do.
They are constantly looking for government-private partnerships to solve their problems.
The politicians help make things worse as they promise both what they can do and what they cannot do.
Also, the thought that only those that are connected can do business is totally wrong.
As Dan Dierdorf puts it, ''if I've got correct goals and I keep pursing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.
If I do the right thing, I know am going to succeed''
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