Motivational reading

One book I like is "The Little Black Book of Entrepreneurship".

It goes through a list of the 'wrong' reasons to get into business.

at first, it seems like they are good reasons, like:

not wanting a boss, wanting to set your own schedule, non-favorable job prospects, desire to earn money faster --- pretty much your typical reasons most people give for starting a business.

These reasons usually aren't good enough to guarantee success.

For instance, if you were investing in another person's business...would you consider it a selling point of their company that they said they didn't want to have a boss? Would that be the reason for the company's existence?

The reason that the book DOES encourage as genuine, and what an investor would want to hear in a business, is that there is nothing else the entrepreneur is interested in doing. They would rather fail at that then succeed at anything else.

This takes the dedication or devotion of an olympic athlete - starting your own business on a shoestring certainly is a decathalon

Can you imagine asking someone why they wanted to be an olympic athlete, and them responding "Because I wanted to set my own hours"? It would be a joke.

Anyway, that's one point that this book makes that no other books talk about.

It also has a few good chapters on the pitfalls of partnerships and why people beginning in business tend to form codependent non-synergetic partnerships that aren't to their benefit.

Very easy read, easy to come back to with numbered lists. Unique book, worth checking out.