Could you be a successful entrepreneur? Three intriguing attributes might help
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Could you be a successful entrepreneur? Three intriguing attributes might help
It turns out they have a lot in common. They are all independent thinkers who do not let anything or anyone stand in the way of achieving their audacious goals. They have very strong mental maps of how things should be done, and at the same time a willingness to test those mental maps in the world of reality and change the ways they do things to ma
... See moreRay Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that ... See more
Paul Graham • What We Look for in Founders
I think there are a few entrepreneurs that come out that have had protected their generative drive, protected their curiosity, their creativity as they manifest their aggressive drive, and they didn't let their pleasures and their enjoyment of success corrupt them in a way that took their eye off the ball.
But I think those three different drives en... See more
But I think those three different drives en... See more
Onboarding | Colossus
Personal Reflection What traits do you associate with an entrepreneur?
Jeff Hilimire • The 5-Day Turnaround: Be the leader you always wanted to be. (the Turnaround Leadership Series)
Steve Blank—a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Stanford professor—has a theory he calls “dysfunctional family theory.”[4] He says that good entrepreneurs “have similar personality