Successful Entrepreneurs

Dave is winding me up … he sends me a link to a thing called ‘the book of life’.

The thesis of the section that I read was that ‘successful entrepreneurs’ must have an ‘accurate insight into the causes of human unhappiness’.

Not so. In fact your successful entrepreneur must:

(1) be able to detect that someone else has identified a novel insight into a cause of human unhappiness, and then
(2) ruthlessly exploit someone else’s proposed solution to the identified cause of human unhappiness, and
(3) be totally unaffected by the fact that the solution will create new causes of human unhappiness, and
(4) in most cases give up any hopes of personal happiness or even contentment, and
(5) have a significant quantity of other hard-earned and necessary business skills, and
(6) be very, very lucky