The Number 1 Trait of Every Successful Entrepreneur
Honesty
“Keep working hard, and I’ll upgrade your status from copycat to a part time entrepreneur, he had said.”
“And with that cash, I’ll buy your best performing business one day and get rid of you the next,” I reminded my friend for the 100th time.
My friend keeps making fun of my entrepreneurial journey.
I did not become an entrepreneur because I had any groundbreaking ideas that would have made the world a better place.
I admired what a colleague at the office was doing as a weekend photographer, and I told myself if he could, I can too. Only I have had to juggle that with school, a fulltime job, and writing.
But it’s been fun.
I remember how one of my first gigs came as a result of being forthright with my (lack of) experience.
“If only everyone were that honest with their skills and level of experience,” he had bemoaned. That was an invaluable lesson he shared with me.
Honestly, honesty works
My first ever photo session, I told the client I was only a beginner and that I was using his kids as guinea pigs. Lame joke, but he found it amusing.
