Another great one from Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs said this part best:
“I get asked this a lot and I have a pretty standard answer which is, a lot of people come to me and say ‘I want to be an entrepreneur’. And I go ‘Oh that’s great, what’s your idea?’ And they say ‘I don’t have one yet’. And I say ‘I think you should go get a job as a busboy or something until you find something you’re really passionate about because it’s a lot of work. I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don’t blame them. Its really tough and it consumes your life… Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you’re not going to survive. You’re going to give it up. So you’ve got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you’re passionate about otherwise you’re not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that’s half the battle right there.” ~ Steve Jobs
“I want to be my own boss” is not a good reason to start a company. In fact, it might well be the worst reason, so spare yourself and everyone else the agony. Start a company because you’re going to make something great, not because you’re going to make a great boss for yourself.
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Nice one ! This is a great debate about whether the idea is the central part of a successful startup. Read closely and somewhere inside it, it talks more about perseverance as the essential thing to succeed. Jobs passion comes from being “driven by ideas”. Some others I think, might be driven by something else. Don’t know. But yes, you are right. Being one’s own boss is one of the worst reasons to be a startup.
See this interesting debate also
https://plus.google.com/100613060119695637213/posts/WzK84itfj5K