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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I'm on the verge of potentially doing this.
The work and hours aren't what scare me. It's putting EVERYTHING into a venture I truly believe in, and believe will be successful and still failing. This happens, and happens a lot, especially in an economically depressed area.
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I have the utmost respect for people that try; it must be terrifying. Small business owners take the risks that make the economy go, and only a minority of them make a comfortable living in the long term, never mind become rich. With any luck, one of those successes will be you.
Back to the original subject: those businesspeople that do become rich aren't necessarily smarter, or harder workers, or have better ideas than those that fail. Sometimes they are just luckier, or timelier, or know/meet the right people. Remembering that, and being humble, is a lot more attractive in a wealthy person than being a d-bag who think that because everything happened to work out for them, anyone who isn't as successful is a lesser and lazier person.