Brad CostanzoEntrepreneur, AI & Innovation Strategiest

The Easy Money For Entrepreneurs (Not What You Think)

Name: The Easy Money For Entrepreneurs (Not What You Think)
Uploaded: 2019-04-26T01:40:38+00:00
Duration: 1 min 31 s
Channel: Brad Costanzo
Description: Short motivational talk by Brad Costanzo advising listeners that the "easiest" way to make money is often a stable day job (benefits, predictable hours)…

26 Apr 2019 · 2 min

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Short motivational talk by Brad Costanzo advising listeners that the "easiest" way to make money is often a stable day job (benefits, predictable hours) and that there is no shame in working a job. He contrasts being an "entrepreneur" (a risky, resilience-testing path) with being "entrepreneurial" (a mindset anyone can adopt): identify opportunities to add value within any role, ask questions beyond your department, solve problems, which can lead to promotion, consulting gigs, or new ventures. The speaker encourages widening participation in entrepreneurial thinking to address bigger problems.

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Anybody want to know the easiest way to make money right now? Easiest way, okay, day job, Get a day job. You get weekends off. You get to check out at 5 o'. Clock. You want the easy money, you get benefits with the easy money. And by the way, there's nothing wrong with jobs. Jobs are amazing. We all need jobs. We all need to employ people. There's nothing wrong with that. Being an entrepreneur and a lot of us like, that's what I want to be. It's hard. You're going to get punched in the nose many, many, many, many times. And if you're not really resilient and adaptable, it's going to hurt. Do it anyway. But there is a huge difference between being an entrepreneur, which is a lofty goal, and being entrepreneurial, which anybody can do. Entrepreneurial means you identify opportunities to add value, to help somebody out, to make a change, to make a difference, to move something in a different direction that it would have moved without you. And you can do that as an accounts receivable clerk at a big company. If you simply start to ask your boss questions, hey, boss, I was just curious about what's going on at the company. Like, ask about stuff that have nothing to do with your department and see if you can solve those problems. Because you can either get promoted or if you solve that problem really good, maybe you realize you've got a job as a consultant and you can start a business that way. You don't have to be an entrepreneur, but you all can be entrepreneurial. In fact, it's the only thing that I think is going to really move this world to a better place, is if more people think like that, how can I solve bigger problems and challenges?