Four Entrepreneurial Principles I Learned About Success...

Four Entrepreneurial Principles I Learned About Success While Flying Home From Vacation By Sharon Schierling | Submitted On May 25, 2011 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon Share this article on Delicious Share this article on Digg Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Sharon Schierling My husband and I were on vacation recently and on the return trip we had a aircraft full of very interesting people. And I got to thinking about what all these people do for a living and wondered how many of them were actually entrepreneurs. As a life and business coach I have discovered that nothing is ever as it seems and as I started looking at these people I realized that many of the reasons that people fail in business has more to do with them and their personal habits, than the economy, the cost of marketing or the type of product they sell. I observed a few behaviors that, at first made me smile, and then made me think about how these habits and actions would affect an entrepreneur s business or personal life. I came up with a few principles that good entrepreneurs should implement. 1. Good entrepreneurs need to learn how to slow down to read and follow instructions. As we were standing in the security line in the Orlando International Airport, there was a family of fiveShow MoreRelated65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays 2nd Edition 147256 Words   |  190 Pages Lauren. II. Harbus. III. Title: Sixty...five successful Harvard Business School application essays. 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