What is an Entrepreneur and Why Do We Need to Be One?

Anyone depending solely on a job for a living would be almost completely lost if he loses his job. The unfortunate fact is that since the Multi-Nationals Companies began institutionalizing the treatment of employees as just another business resource, albeit commodity, the age of life-long employment seizes. Financial results associated with satisfying shareholders’ expectations became the main reason for a business enterprise. Coupled with the practice of achieving short term objectives and the need to maintain share prices, retrenching workers became a normal business practice. Words like ‘downsizing’ and ‘business rationalizing’ became common business parlance.

This dehumanizing of business enterprises, prevalent throughout 18th and 19th century industrializing Britain was revived and practice by American businesses. The new reality in capitalist America means a worker is subject to his job being taken away any day. This means that the individual worker must realize quickly the insecurity of a job.

What then is a worker to do to secure himself? Off course there are skills like being a doctor or dentist and others which are not down sizable. However, most workers are dispensable!

Henry Ford, the car genius, once said that ‘money is not a man’s security; he is his own security’. What he meant was that a man’s security lies in his knowledge and skills. However, if your skill and knowledge is tied to working for someone then that skill can be replaced any time.

However, Henry Ford is not wrong; if a man’s skills and knowledge is in the area of creating a money making enterprise. Robert Kiyoskai, a modern Henry Ford, said that ‘every man must mind his own business’. He didn’t express it too well but what he meant is that ‘to have security a person must learn to develop his own money making business’. Is this possible? Every man? In my opinion in today’ new reality any worker who wants financial security has no other option!

Off course, whenever an uninitiated thinks of starting a business he thinks of big capital, connections, special knowledge and skills. For a man who has little money and has just lost his job, it’s even more unrealistic to think of starting his own business. However, many have done it, albeit, at great odds.

But what if you are not retrenched yet? And you have some time to learn. Could you invest in a money-making skill that can provide an alternative income? Could you learn to be an entrepreneur with little resources and connections? The answer is yes but you have to adopt an entrepreneur mind-set; which really means that you to start believing in possibilities! Remember that when Bill Gates and Steve Jobs started their little enterprises in garages all they had mainly were their belief in possibilities. The amazing fact is that because of them the possibilities have increased exponentially with the advent of the internet.

Besides a strong belief in possibilities, an entrepreneur is one who learns to gather resources, knowledge and skills and organize them into money making processes. In most conventional businesses, this is usually a huge ask for any newcomer. However, if you choose to become an internet entrepreneur it becomes easier: the main thing you would need is a good PC, some money (mostly affordable), a willingness to learn and a lot of belief in yourself. What is to be learned is seldom difficult; a man’s limitation to success is often his own lack of self-belief! If your motivation is create a secure financial situation for you and your loved ones, then you need to be an internet entrepreneur. The days of secure employment is long over and moreover, personal wealth is seldom acquired by working for others.

The thing to do is to find some successful practitioners who are honest and have their own strong reasons to want to help you succeed; and they do exist.

You can go to http://www.thesuperfastaffiliate.com or http://www.enduringautoincome.com to find the sincere teacher/guru who would actually show you how to make it in the internet marketing business.

Wishing you all the best!
Louis Lim