You might be an entrepreneur if…you’ve had dreams about your employees’ wives yelling at you. Ah, I’ve been looking forward to this one. This is based on a true experience, that is, a real dream I had. When I’ve been in danger of being late on payroll I start getting more and more stressed as
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Yes, you might be an entrepreneur if…you’re the lowest paid employee in your company. A common misconception amongst the general public is that people with “CEO” or “President” on their business card make lots of money. If the company name on that card is “IBM” or “Ford” then that’s probably true (although if you’re at
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You might be an entrepreneur if…you’ve averaged 60-80 hours per week of work for the past five years. When I was a kid I felt like I had been sold into slave labor if I had to do two hours of work in a week. I worked at Little Caesar’s for a few months during
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I just read ‘Born’ or ‘made,’ entrepreneurs share key traits by Joseph Walker who has been affiliated with the Center for Entrepreneurship at BYU for the past ten years. As part of his article he shares a list of entrepreneurial traits he got from John G. Burch that I found at first elementary, but then
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You might be an entrepreneur if…you’ve had to explain to your employees the concept of “no money”. In no way do I mean to ever insinuate that employees are not justified in demanding to be paid on time. That’s their right. It’s part of the contractual agreement between employer and employee unless specifically stated otherwise.
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You might be an entrepreneur if…your only source of income over the past three years has come from your wife. A toast to the spouses of entrepreneurs, we couldn’t do it without them. It’s typical for a male entrepreneur, when asked to give a speech at a business event, to give some token credit to
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You might be an entrepreneur if…in the six years you’ve been married you’ve never taken your wife on a vacation. It got up to seven years, but right after our seventh anniversary we actually took our first vacation. We went to Oregon for a week and stayed with friends in Portland and Seaside. Hopefully we
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You might be an entrepreneur if…you’ve “borrowed” money from the IRS by not paying your payroll taxes so that you have enough money to pay your employees. I guess you could say I like knowing where the limits are. How long can I go without making my loan payment before they refer me to the
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For those who are getting depressed reading my entries this one will be a breath of fresh air, like receiving a pick-me-up bouquet from Merlin Olsen. You might be an entrepreneur if…you’ve risked permanent bladder damage because you don’t take time to go to the bathroom.