How To Be An Entrepreneur
Top Tips

The best tips I can give you on how to be an entrepreneur are...

1. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. Mistakes are not failures. Each of them is an opportunity to learn ... what others will never know!

2. Don't listen to those who say it can't be done. They don't have your knowledge, your experience and your know-how ... let alone the guts to take up a challenge, any challenge for that matter.

3. Follow your instinct. As you may have already read elsewhere on this Web site, you can teach your instinct to be reliable by frequently putting it to the test with new challenges.

My "Tipping Point"

I could give you a list of my many successes. Most would seem "small" to you. Nonetheless, it's the sum of all of them that made a big difference in my journey as entrepreneur.

The entrepreneurial mind feeds on a steady diet of new challenges. Mine is no different. Yours is not either.

I got progressively "bolder" as years went by and with each little success ... and minor setback.

I think my "tipping point" happened in 1986 when I ran for mayor of Longueuil, the third largest city in Québec, Canada. I was not elected ... but more than 6,000 of my fellow citizens had voted for me!

I had done nothing remotely as enterprising as that before.

Those votes of confidence along with the unbelievable experience of running for office galvanized me into decisive entrepreneurial action.

I had finally met the true entrepreneur in me then.

All my past successes had served to forge my entrepreneurial spirit and steel my resolve. Most of them were small victories in scope - at least by most people's standards.

But, in my view, even my setbacks had yielded huge personal benefits. Thanks to them, I eventually did become what most people would now consider a "successful entrepreneur".

I learned how to be an entrepreneur

• by constantly taking up new challenges

• and by not being afraid to make mistakes.

... and by recognizing that I will always have things to learn. For example,

I learned how to become an internet entrepreneur
from the best of them.

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