“You’ll never succeed.”
“That’s the stupidest idea I ever heard.”
“You just don’t have the right personality to do business.”
“The market is already sewn up, how on earth do you think you can make it?”
“Ha ha ha… you want to what? That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.”
“What if you don’t succeed. Think about your partner and children. You’re putting it all at risk.”
And so on. If you haven’t heard variations of the above, just wait, you will.
The modern education system is set up to train us all as good workers for the modern industrialised society.
When you go into business you are stepping out of the comfort zone that we all exist in and others will react.
Ex-co-worker’s reactions can range from seeing you as an inspiration for them to do something to outright hostility.
Family members can try to talk you out of it.
Friends can be quite vicious in terms of comments they make.
Potential clients can be quite cruel during the formative stages.
Guess what – none of that matters in the end.
You will probably develop a long list of people you’d love to tell “See, I was right, you were wrong.”
There may be others you fantasize about getting revenge on – which is fine so long as you only think it and never act on it.
The supreme form of revenge on the naysayers is success. They see the outcome and have absolutely no idea how you did it. Their view of the world is obviously wrong, or maybe you are just an aberration to their world view. It doesn’t matter.
The mere fact that you exist and are succeeding is enough to irritate them so get out there and make it work.
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