Beneath all that joy and happiness, glitz and glamour of the successful launch of an entrepreneurial venture is a lot of hard work – Sheer Hard Work.
You may have all the skill possible. You may have spotted all the business opportunities possible in th world. You may even have access to all the necessary financing possible. Even done your market survey and plan etc. However, without hard work i.e the willingness to put in the extra shift necessary to creatively bring all of the above together to achieve your target, you will surely fail.
As a matter of fact, without hard work you will not be able to do all the necessary things to make your startup or business a success story. The possibility of conducting marketing survey and designing a market plan, crafting your business plan, arranging finance, putting your team together etc all require working hard extra long hours. Remember: There is no short road to success.
Of course, don’t get me wrong. Hard work alone will not take you to the promised land. Otherwise, every truck pusher, gravedigger etc who physically toil from dawn to dusk would have gotten stinkingly rich by now.
Take this story about Cooper Dressler who was recently elevated to being a team member of the Oracle America’s Cup boat racing team. Below are two quotes in his own words:
“At the beginning, I was sort of just a hired help”
“… A bit of labour, random things, packing containers. I learned how to drive a forklift pretty well …”
Going by his words: Having started out as a helper, his willingness to graft (work hard) on the boat led to his being upgraded to the sailing team.
According to Jimmy Spithill, the skipper who led the Oracle team to its first America’s Cup success, Dressler’s hardworking enterprise set him apart from the rest and convinced him to upgrade him to the sailing team. He has these to say about Cooper:
“Cooper is just a fantastic story … the most important thing is your attitude and your work ethic.”
“It didn’t matter what job he was doing, he was always upbeat, motivated – a great attitude. We all saw that and we thought ‘We’ve just got to have this guy on our team’.”
Hard work truly pays not only in the America’s Cup but in all spheres of life and even more so in the success of an Entrepreneur. Your hard work as evidenced from moving your project from the idea stage to the business plan stage will help convince potential partners, potential investors, potential team members (staff) etc to join up in bringing your idea to fruition.
Hard work pays! Always!
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