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Speech On Entrepreneurs

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Black business owners don’t need to be your favorite people, nor do they even need to be your friend. The other side doesn’t accept us or love us, but we will run to support “them” because we’re obsessed with acceptance. Who says their label/brand is fly? All so you can think you’re doing and looking better than the rest of the barrel? Entrepreneurs are no martyrs, we just know what we’re willing to put in to get to where we want to go and who we want to become. If you’ve ever had any semblance of a real conversation with me, you know a real question I ask is this, “If you could wake up tomorrow and be/do whatever you want to do, what would it be?” after you answer, I follow up with, “Why aren’t you doing that?” after that answer, I follow up with this, “With what you make at your job now, would you quit if your dream job or career paid you the same exact thing?” If you have to hesitate to answer yes to that question, leave being self-employed alone because your passion would have made you jump out the window for it.
Listen to yourself, trust yourself and understand that you’ll be driven to depression way more times than you’ll be happy. Paying the cost to be the “boss” has nothing to do with money; it’s the price of your soul, social life, and mental health. If you ever tell yourself that you have to “sacrifice” in order to achieve your entrepreneurial goals, then you’re fucking lying and should be a good person and get a job. The only sacrifice in this life is doing anything that keeps you away from your ultimate goal.
Most people don’t have the temperament to be an entrepreneur, why do you think “bosses” are such assholes? They (should) know everyone else’s job inside out, plus their own while managing everyone’s day-to-day. I think like most things in society, people play entrepreneur for the title or how it somehow makes them appear, but again, it’s actually miserable. Being an entrepreneur means mostly any & everything that takes your attention away from work will piss you off. I’ll be at a party texting myself everything I’d rather be doing on my laptop. And that may seem extreme but I have a healthy obsession with my goals. I say healthy because it’s derived from love & passion of creating.
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