CHAPTER 5
What’s your motivation?
The five-second multimillionaire test
The second part of the definition of an entrepreneur was ‘initiative’. Other words for this might be drive, motivation, ambition. If risk is the brakes on your engine, initiative is the fuel that fires your business forwards.
Mark Mills wondered why only the Royal Mail was allowed to have postboxes. There could be a business there for him. So he phoned them up and asked. They laughed at him saying, ‘We get hundreds of people asking this, and it’s our sole right by law’.
But Mark’s curiosity was piqued. He enrolled in law school at nights. He spent ...
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