I have to be honest. It is definitely my deepest desire to own and have a small business, but also one of my deepest fears is failing, or messing up. I developed that fear after many mistakes in life. Sometimes the desire of actually owning a business scares me. What if i don't make enough money initially? What if noone is interested in my product. But then I had to stop and realize that if I'm not interested in my own product no one else will be. And also had to realize that it's okay to make mistakes. Making mistakes is the basis for all kinds of learning and success. I ran across a quote that Mark Zuckerburg said in an interview concerning mistakes:
"We used to write this down by saying, 'move fast and break things.' And the idea was, unless you are breaking some stuff you are not moving fast enough.
"I think there's probably something in that for other entrepreneurs to learn which is that making mistakes is okay. At the end of the day, the goal of building something is to build something, not to not make mistakes."
His business, which is Facebook, i'm sure took a lot of trial and error runs. But the business of Facebook is extremely successful. I'll definitely be keeping that quote in mind. Especially the latter portion of the statement.
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