Anyone who builds a company does so by seeing an unserved market that the conventional wisdom has missed. Skeptics are always going to say that there s no market, or if there were, the smart established businesses would already be serving it. Plenty of doubters will happily point out the foolishness of putting good money into serving that new market. But the true entrepreneur doesn t listen to the nay-sayers. Adversity only fuels the fire and desire to succeed.
Setbacks are simply opportunity creators.
The real renegade goes ahead and builds a company no matter what. So to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to be some kind of a risk-taking renegade. Let s hope this new millennium will be as friendly to creative entrepreneurs the renegades we ll be admiring tomorrow as the old one has been.