Everyone Is an Entrepreneur — No Excuses!

Without doing this, we will always feel like we have the potential for more, but we won't know what. July 13, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( | [WEBSITE]( [Altucher Confidential] “Without doing this, we will always feel like we have the potential for more, but we won't know what.” [Enable Images To See More] Everyone Is an Entrepreneur — No Excuses! By James Altucher Altucher: “I’m Betting This will Change Your Life.” [Please Enable Images]( want you to know: it doesn’t’ have to be hard to make money on Wall Street. In fact, I’m betting that when you [click this link,]( just 30 seconds you’ll discover a secret that will change the way you think about investing forever. [See it now,]( while you still can… She said, "Not everyone is like you. I'm not cut out to be an entrepreneur." BS! That's just an excuse and I'm tired of hearing it. Although I don't consider myself in the "entrepreneur" category of podcasts, I am grateful to be on this attached list. People often think being an entrepreneur is about risk taking. I hear this a lot: "Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur." Neither of these is true. 1) An entrepreneur DOES NOT take risks. The entire job is to reduce risks. Else an entrepreneur will fail. There are many ways to reduce risks and I had to learn this the hard way. Example: Before I started one of my companies, Stockpickr, I guaranteed an ad deal that would net me $90,000 a month starting immediately. I had one partner, no employees, and no risk. Otherwise I would not have taken the risk of going into that business. Example 2: My first successful business, Reset, started while I was a full-time employee at HBO. I stayed a full-time employee for 18 months, until Reset was generating enough money that I would not have to go down in income if I made the jump to full time. And I had clients to make sure Reset would stay in business for at least another 12 months in the worst-case scenario. This is how I cut out risk. 2) When people say, "Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur," I am confused. An EMPLOYEE is the biggest risk taker. It's like the turkey that is fed well every day and then on Thanksgiving is surprised when the machete comes out. [Nassim Nicholas Taleb]( says the three greatest addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a stable income. College kid turned $3k into rare $25 million with this strategy [Please Enable Images]( he heard about this strange code, he hesitated. But his “geeky” friends convinced him to put $3,000 into it. Over the next three years, that $3k turned into $2.3 million. Another four years later, he was sitting on an extraordinary $25 million fortune. All from what looks like a random 32-digit code. [Click here to see which Big Tech names have just put money into this technology]( Even within the confines of working for a company, an employee must be an "entre-ployee." Constantly connecting dots, looking for opportunities, seeking out the place least crowded, in order to find and then protect and grow their success. At HBO, for instance, they didn't have a website (1995), so I carved out my space there by going from lowly IT slave to being in charge of their website. Humans have always been entrepreneurs. 70,000 years ago we hunted for food and shared or bartered with the tribe. 10,000 years ago, the most successful humans were merchants, farmers, military leaders, religious leaders — all entrepreneurial efforts. To not cultivate the entrepreneurial aspects of our lives is to become the serfs and slaves of the ones who do. Whether we are employees, entrepreneurs, artists, "lifestyle entrepreneurs," side hustlers, etc., we must always go to the place least crowded, nourish our unique abilities, and provide service to society that gets rewarded. Without doing this, we lead lives of simmering anxiety. We will always feel like we have the potential for more More MORE but we won't know what. We will have an itch. We will have sleepless nights wondering, "What if?" We will wonder if the canvas we created our life on is a work of art or something to be discarded. And then we peter out, leaving no stamp behind on this world that was so eager to give bloom to our potential. I hate traditional entrepreneurship. I'm not a businessman, although I know the rules of the game. I don't like sales but I can sell things I believe in. I hate negotiation. I hate to manage other people. Every time I started a business, from 1987 until now, I always told myself, "Never again! I hate this." And I truly do. I started a food delivery business in my college in 1987. I started an internet-based chess server in 1992. "Never again!" But I did again. And again. And again. I'm an entrepreneur, like the rest of us. And I always will be. Sincerely, [James Altucher] James Altucher P.S. Did you know there is a secret behind the crazy stock market swings? I was on a mission to find the market force driving investments up and down, and after hundreds of hours, I believe I finally found it! [Click here to see what he has uncovered](. Looking for a side-hustle? [Please Enable Images]( if you work a full-time job... You may want to earn a little extra money. [Learn how you could start making money from home once you get your hands on this 372-page book.]( Subsribe To My Podcast [The James Altucher Show]( Add james@jamesaltucher.com to your address book: [Whitelist Us]( [The James Altucher Website]( [Subscribe Via Text]( [Subscribe With YouTube]( [Subscribe On Messenger]( [Subscribe With iTunes]( [Connected on LinkedIn]( Join the conversation! Follow me on social media: [Facebook Group]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Instagram]( Altucher Confidential is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 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