What Successful People Don’t Do

Everyone always wants to know what to do to become successful, but not many people consider what they shouldn’t do. When you know what not to do, the rest seems to fall into place.  And if you look at all the successful entrepreneurs, business people, and even individuals (athletes, artists, etc.), there is a single defining thing that they don’t do: give up.

Giving Up

How many successful people do you know who gave up?

It’s likely you don’t know anyone who is successful that gave up on your dreams of success. That’s the whole point. They never gave up.

Before you tell yourself the reason why they didn’t give up is because they didn’t go through the challenges and tribulations that others who do give up go through, just stop. Every single entrepreneur that started and grew a business to success went through crises. It’s part of the journey, and there wouldn’t be success if there weren’t obstacles to overcome.

As an entrepreneur, you have something inside of you that makes you want to do something different, big, and awesome. You want to be on top of the world.

As you climb that mountain to the top, you’ll fall, and you may even slide down a little. Will you tumble all the way to bottom? Maybe. Whether you turn around and walk away or get back on the mountain to climb away is the difference between being successful and not.

Keep Going Until You Can’t Anymore

You don’t fail unless you give up. As long as you can physically and mentally pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and trudge forward, you will reach the success you want. It may not be in the way you want, but it will end up being what you wanted.

Famous People That Didn’t Give Up

Walt Disney wasn’t always successful. He was fired from his job at the Kansas City Star Newspaper. He started a business called Laugh-O-Gram, but that didn’t take off, and he ended up losing all of his money. He kept going though, and that’s why we now have Walt Disney World, Disneyland and Euro Disney.

Oprah Winfrey used to be poor. She was fired from many jobs in which she was a reporter and co-anchor. It didn’t stop her though. She kept trying to hit the big screen, and one day, her whole world opened up and now she’s one of the richest ladies in the world. This is rags to riches at its finest!

Bill Gates decided to quit Harvard to start a business called Traf-O-Data, which flopped. It wasn’t too long afterwards that he used his lessons from the close of the business to create Microsoft.

Milton Hershey couldn’t get two candy businesses off the ground enough to make a profit. That was until he started Hershey’s!

Steve Jobs was fired from Apple, and he was the founder! What did he do? He went back, and then ended up making the company the most well know, successful technology companies in the world.

Learn from the most successful people in the world. Don’t give up on your dreams of business success. You’re an entrepreneur that needs to create an empire, and if one thing doesn’t work, that means you need to try something different. As long as you try, you will never fail.

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