What do you do when the opportunity doesn’t knock, you build a door and create an opportunity. Entrepreneurship is about building your dreams, pursuing your passion, taking risks, and doing everything that the world thinks you can’t do. Entrepreneurship is a lifestyle, it’s about thinking what couldn’t be done and then doing it. It isn’t every one’s cup of tea. It requires courage to take risks, patience to wait for the right moment, it’s about pushing through all the obstacles when everyone else gives up. Entrepreneurs are always in search of creative ways to grow their business, new innovations to differentiate themselves from others. It’s not something that you can read and learn from a “How to develop Entrepreneurship For Dummies” book, it requires a different mindset, a firm determination, a budget-planning, an imagination something which comes from experience, not reading.
This is an age of competition, an era of Entrepreneurship revolution, the situations are way tougher than you can imagine. The challenges might overwhelm you, a few disappointments can make you wanna quit the idea. So it’s necessary to keep up the motivation, don’t lose the confidence in your abilities, you have to believe that it will work out. And what’s better way to find the motivation than watching some entertaining, thought-provoking movies?
So sit back, relax, and take a note of some motivating entrepreneurship lessons from these 7 movies!
1. Good artists copy, great artists steal. There are no original ideas, it’s just the same thing executed differently. Your ideas and inspiration have already been thought by someone else too. Everyone has their big idea, but not everyone has the guts to make it come true. So it comes down to the guts, the vision, and the confidence to make your idea a reality.
“If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”
2. A lot of us blame our circumstances the reason why we can’t be successful, but it’s all BS. Success doesn’t depend on luck or fate, it’s a result of your perseverance. Life ain’t no sunshine or rainbow, things are not going to be easy, life will humiliate you, people will let you down, but it comes down to how much you can take and still keep moving forward.
“Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they’re gonna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.”
3. When you walk up to the opportunity’s door, don’t knock on it. You kick it open, smile and introduce yourself. Be the WOLF, not a SHEEP! The world is full of opportunities, they are reserved for the hungriest people to take them. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, if you play by the rules there’s a chance you might come short. You have to think out of the box.
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
4. Surround yourself with a powerful and trusted community. Build a network of loyal people who can help you with favors when the time comes. You win some, you lose some, that’s how it goes. But don’t be impulsive, don’t let your emotions cloud your judgment. Always take your ego and emotion out of the equation. Know what you want and be decisive. And always keep your competitors close, follow their moves, be a step ahead of them.
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
5. You don’t need a degree to change the world, but an idea. Differentiate yourself from others, try to be different, not better. Don’t follow the trends, but create new trends. Always understand your customer needs, create innovative products, don’t clone others.
“Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
6. What exactly creates a brand? Is it the attractive advertisements, a big corporate culture, the kickbacks to acquire big clients? No! It’s the customer service and customer satisfaction that matters in the long run. The reason why some big brands have still maintained their popularity is because they don’t compromise with their product’s quality for short-term goals. Care for your customers, without them you’re nothing.
“Risk to spiderman bhi leta hai… main to phir bhi salesman hoon!”
7. Having a job is important, but if your job makes you miserable, then you’re in the wrong direction. The 9-5 job may not get you very far. It might drain all your creativity. Everyone should work on the stuff that they like, something which they’re passionate about. Life is too short to be working a job you hate, you have the control to change your career path.
“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that’s on the worst day of my life.”
