The Forgotten Art of Entrepreneurship

By Othieno Brian

A simple and short book with an ocean of wisdom for those interested in starting their own businesses. This book features the genius of a successful, free and happy entrepreneur. The knowledge it bares demands no qualification of the reader or anyone who gains access to it. It does not require one to have gone through school to benefit from the knowledge it offers. The forgotten art of entrepreneurship bares long forgotten basics of business. Most of which are ignored by the majority of people who struggle in business. The ancient art was practiced allover the world by various people who not only become wealthy through the art but also lived free and happy lives. The art bares inexplicable energy which brings nothing but joy and happiness to everyone who practices it. It is the ABC knowledge that makes doctors and astronauts of the business world but has long been forgotten. Without the art, the best that one can achieve is money and egoistic satisfaction which they can never get enough of. This book focuses on personal discipline that one requires to be free and successful as an entrepreneur. It is a complete book with all the steps that one has to take starting from how to decide which business to start to monitoring and watching the business grow.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Othieno Brian
• Release date: Aug 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463325353

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The Forgotten Art of Entrepreneurship

By Othieno Brian

Copyright 2018 Othieno Brian

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Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One- Which business to start.

Chapter Two- Taking the first step.

Chapter Three- Adapting

Chapter Four- The trade

Chapter Five- Money

Chapter Six- Our relations

Chapter Seven- The core virtues of entrepreneurship

About the author

Prologue.

The Forgotten Art of Entrepreneurship.

This book is not meant for those looking to make money only. It is meant for those seeking complete and absolute freedom and happiness through going into trade with regards to the doing things that bring them joy. This book is meant to help remind the reader about what truly matters when it comes to handling trade. It is meant to remind everyone individually about their passions and things that bring them joy. By reading this book, the reader gets equipped with the required knowledge of how to transmute those desires into a product that they could sell. The art may be long forgotten but our passions which are the blueprints of our nature never change whatsoever. It does not require one to be a professional or hold a bachelor’s degree in business in order to put this great art into practice. All it requires is an honest decision from a person to follow their deepest desires.

This is a short book baring great secrets which the reader will find quit obvious because the truth is, the forgotten art has always been known by everyone. Reading about it or listening to it awakens a sensation which makes you feel that you have always known it. Why then have you chosen not to practice it? You will find all the answers briefly explained in this book.

Chapter 1

WHICH BUSINESS TO START

Who is an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is a person who starts a business with the aim of making money. An entrepreneur studies his environment, gathers the required resources and starts the business. Knowing which business to start is the core of entrepreneurship. Many people go into a particular kind of business for all the wrong reasons and seem to ignore the most important principles and values of business.

Let us begin by defining business in the simple way we have been told and made to believe. A business is an act of making, buying, selling or supplying of goods or services. Whether you are manufacturing a product or buying a product for re-sale, as long as you intend to profit from it through trade, you can as well call it a business. It does not matter if the product is tangible or intangible. Back to our topic. Which business to start. Of all the many businesses today, only one in every ten businesses is successful and this is surprisingly for all the obvious reasons you are about to find out. If you are already into a business and are struggling, you will surely find out why and understand that maybe you have wasted a lot of your time and resources on implementing complicated work-flows based on statistics and charts that never mattered in the first place.

Knowing which business to start begins with answering a few personal questions. No one can answer these questions for you and you have to be absolutely honest with yourself. Do not answer these questions yet. Just read through them and allow your mind process them as you read through to the end of this chapter.

• What is it that you love doing or are happy doing?

• How many complements have you got for doing what makes you happy?

• What negative things have you heard or been told about what you love doing?

• If you have for a long time ignored your passions, how many events have you experienced and considered coincidences which seem to remind you of your passions?

• If you stopped suppressing your passions and instead put it to use, how would you contribute to the betterment of people around you?

• Would you do what you love for free?

Every single person in this planet is unique in a special way. Everyone is passionate about something, good or bad. It is our individual task to find out what it is we are so passionate about. It is only you who knows the answers to these questions. Some people shy away from the things they love because of fear, fear of judgment from other people, some others have been made to believe that the things they are passionate about are too small and it is time to grow up! I know of a man who has made millions of dollars selling candy and another who earns more than $50000 annually for smiling at the entrance of a fancy hotel.

Whatever reason you may have for not believing that your happiness matters is the greatest limitation of your life and the major cause of your failure in business. The things that make you happy are part of your being just like your hands, legs and any other body part. Cutting off any of your body parts creates a limitation and the same applies to blocking the things that we do that make us happy