Becoming an entrepreneur is quite a challenge. Facing different problems everyday, making decisions most of the time and formulating different scenarios in order to make the best of your business. Selecting this career path is unreasonable because the chances of succeeding is limited, but for those who succeed due to their drive, persistence and diligence, its reward is more than fulfilling.

It is hard to be “laser-focus” everyday considering various factors which can affect you. That is why I compiled this best quotes for you to be motivated.

Below are the following:

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1. “I find it best to dive right in and learn the hard way.”
   – Pete Cashmore, Mashable
2. “If you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”
    – Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
3. “A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”
   – Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz
4. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”
   – Catherine Cook, MyYearbook
5. “If you’ve got an idea, start today. There’s no better time than now to get going. That doesn’t mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there’s always small progress that can be made to start the movement.”
   – Kevin Systrom, Instagram
6. “Everything started as nothing.”
    – Ben Weissenstein, Grand Slam Garage Sales
7. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
   – Peter Drucker
8. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
     – Vince Lombardi
9. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
   – Steve Jobs
10. “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”
    – Richard Branson
11. “Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself.”
    – Oprah Winfrey
12. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
       – Bill Gates
13. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
    – Anais Nin
14. “There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
    – Aristotle
15. “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.”
    – Teddy Roosevelt
16. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
    – George Addair
17. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
    – Japanese proverb
18. “Success comes, not overnight, but through hard work and persistence. It is important to thrive, not on your own, but with the knowledge bestowed upon the Almighty God.”
    – Stephen Cabaltera

It has been an age-old question whether or not “Entrepreneurship can be learned or is it a talent which comes naturally within?” Others think that “entrepreneurs are born, not made” while some also believes that entrepreneurship is a skill and can be taught in various ways.

Over the past years, we had seen many people who drop out of school and started their own company, achieving  a tremendous amount of success without having the difficulty of going through a four-year business degree. People like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Does this mean that there’s no need for business schools or business degree in order to be successful in the corporate world? Are this people lucky enough to have an innate entrepreneurial skill when they were born? Does this answer our question that entrepreneurship is more of a talent and can never be taught? The answer for all the above questions are ABSOLUTELY NOT.

It is noteworthy to consider that entrepreneurship is a skill and like all other skills, it can be learned. Lucky enough some people obtain this skill as early as childhood and were developed through time. However, it’s never too late for someone who wants to put up his own company just because he/she decided to become an entrepreneur in his/her late years.

Undoubtedly, schools which offer entrepreneurship degree has one thing in common: “To help those who want to have a business succeed, learn and develop entrepreneurial skills over the course of their education”. Having someone teach you the basics is an advantage which you can lean back when your in a middle of a crisis.

THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING A ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEGREE:

1. Business Awareness, Knowledge and Support
– Enrolling into a business course enables you to experience and learn the “know-hows”. It will expose you of various business concepts, methods, and ways. You will also learn how to effectively put up a marketing plan, financial plan, and the tools use for forecasting.

2. Calculative Risk
– Risk is part of being an entrepreneur but what an entrepreneurship degree will teach you is to have a calculative risk. Most schools will teach you the basics or the preparations before you engage and proceed with your ideas. This is an important process specially in start-ups, new business ventures, and company projects.

3. Tools
– Helps you organize your thoughts and create new idea. (e.g. Brainstorming)

4. Mentors
– Most professors are there to encourage you and to teach you ways to overcome challenges in life and business.

THE WRAP UP:

The question presented before us can really be answered in either both ways or sometimes both. What is really important, “Is how to learn and develop entrepreneurial skills?”. It can be taught, innate or  learn through experience. The challenge now is how to make it learnable for others or “what is the best way to teach and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs?” For me, personally, I believe that learning and developing entrepreneurial skill starts from ones own concept, his drive and passion to be an entrepreneur. It is very easy to learn and develop a skill when you love and understand what you are doing.

What is an Entrepreneur? If you search the net you will find out various definitions about it. Consider the following definitions of  “entrepreneur”: one found in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the other from Dictionary.com and the last one from investopedia.com.

• Merriam-Webster: “one who organizes, manages and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.”

• Dictionary.com: “a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.”

•  Investopedia.com: “an individual who, rather than working as an employee, runs a small business and assumes all the risk and reward of a given business venture, idea, or good or service offered for sale. The entrepreneur is commonly seen as a business leader and innovator of new ideas and business processes.”

All of these definitions are correct and would point out to a single concept: “An Entrepreneur is one who creates, assumes risk and reward to pursue their ideas and concepts of a business or an enterprise.”

Entrepreneurs are necessary for a country’s economy to grow. It plays an important role in achieving high economic response. Since entrepreneurs create enterprises, along with it are jobs, income and positive gross domestic outputs. Every enterprise helps, no matter how small or unnoticeable it is. As long as it generates jobs, promotes income and increases output it will make a chain-reaction effect all throughout. Each and every proprietor out there has its own role to play for the global stability of the economy.

The challenge of being an entrepreneur is creating or innovating new things and determining possible business opportunities. It is a continuous cycle: CREATE/DETERMINE, INVEST, BUILD, AND REPEAT.

While some think of entrepreneurs as crazy bunch of people who has a personality disorder of risk addiction, others also give high regard on what they do in order to create an impact to the society.

To put it simply, Entrepreneurs are change makers! The ability to create new product or determine opportunities, pursuing it, regardless of the availability of resources in order to make a living and boost the economy are indicators what makes entrepreneurship hard but still necessary.

The necessity of entrepreneurs is quite evident especially on third world countries. The increasing numbers of unemployment rate all around the globe is far stretch and is expected to fluctuate over time. The job opportunities and creation cannot cope up with the risen number of population for every country.

Bluntly, it is very hard to create and seek for available opportunities nowadays. Everything seems to be present and available. There is also this difficulty of having that competitive edge against corporations with names and money that could eat you up if you play within the status quo. But you should not be discouraged nor feel threatened. Remember, some things you see today might not yet exist yesterday. Those things you grow up with are foreign to your grandparents or even to your parents. The point is, the world is continuously revolving and accompanying it are people’s wants and needs. BE PATIENT, BE OBSERVANT, and BE OPPORTUNISTIC.