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Oct 2014
15m 3s

Am I an Entrepreneur or Not?

Gary Vaynerchuk
About this episode

 #QOTD: Who is the person that you are SO afraid of letting down, it's keeping you from starting something big?

It was so incredible to participate in Dave Ramsey's event. Thanks to everybody who came out, and a HUGE special thanks to the lovely people who stayed after to help me make this episode.

To me there is no such thing as "an entrepreneur with a JOB." If you're a true entrepreneur, you can't breathe when you have a JOB. If you're not out there making it happen and running a business, you're not an entrepreneur, you're a person with entrepreneurial tendencies. Now that's fine. As long as you're HAPPY that's what matters. 

 

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