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Note to Would-Be Entrepreneurs: Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day

Young, successful entrepreneurs are making a lot of headlines these days. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, the financial news media invariably runs stories about public stock offerings that generate millions, if not billions, of dollars for company founders of the latest mobile-technology app. Of course, not all these stories have happy endings. So reports Fox Business.

No wonder so many young and eager career-builders have “entrepreneur” top of mind, if not on their resumes. Noted management consultant and entrepreneur Steve Tobak says CEOs and successful business owners more typically map out their careers. Careers are crafted over time, as Tobak sees it, by ambitious professionals who focus on their core strengths and talents and are willing to take chances – and not afraid to regroup after a failure or false start.

Many, if not most, people who start businesses do it after years in the corporate world honing what they do well, and figuring out just what it is they want to do in life. In a nutshell:

  • Don’t brand yourself an “entrepreneur” out of the starting gate
  • Don’t fall victim to negative thinking or low self-esteem
  • Remember that nobody goes from “zero to billionaire” in the blink of an eye
  • Leaders carve out their own path and lead; they don’t ever follow.

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