This is a motivational talk by Mike Andes arguing that success—especially building a lasting business that employs people and benefits the community—requires substantial sacrifice. Andes contrasts an easy, low-wage, comfort-focused life ("$9–$10 an hour," 9→5 mindset) with the demands of entrepreneurship: giving up weekends, holidays, long breaks, the 9-to-5 clock-out mindset, social ease with coworkers, and even stability (health benefits, 401k). The talk emphasizes that the degree of sacrifice must align with the scale of one’s goals.
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The real question is what are you willing to give up? Not what are you willing to get. Not the car or the house or the fame or the popularity. The real question of whether or not you're going to succeed comes down to how much are you willing to sacrifice. See, if you have big goals and aspirations and dreams and you want to build a big business, you want to build a business that lasts, you want to build a business that employs people, does good for your community, you better believe there's going to be a lot of sacrifice involved.
Now look, if you want to just.
Have a nine, ten dollars an hour job, live paycheck to paycheck, that's not.
Going to require a lot of sacrifice. The level of audacity you have with.
Your goals and your ambitions and the dreams that you have for success directly correlates with how much you're willing to.
Sacrifice, how much you're willing to sacrifice.
In terms of comfort, the comfort zone.
Is absolutely the easiest place to be. It's where everyone wants to be at. But your ability to sacrifice that pleasure.
Of being in the comfort zone will determine whether or not you become successful.
And the degree at which you become successful.
It's not easy, it's not fun.
Giving up your weekends, giving up holidays, giving up evenings.
If you're trying to do your side.
Gig on the weekends or at nights around your full time job, it's not.
Going to be easy. And you're going to have to sacrifice and give up time that would otherwise be spent on yourself and your loved ones.
But the degree at which you are willing to sacrifice is the degree at which you will succeed on the goals and the ambitions you have.
You're going to have to sacrifice the.
Ease of taking a long break, taking.
Two, three weeks off of work. That's not gonna happen.
When you first get started, you're gonna have to sacrifice that.
You're gonna have to sacrifice the ability to be able to clock in at 9, clock out at 5 and stop thinking about work. It's an all encompassing business venture. When you're starting out, you're gonna have to give up the fact that you.
Can be buddy, buddy, chum chum with all the other employees and your co workers because now you're the boss and you have to pay the bills and, and you're responsible for the decision of the business and you're gonna have to.
Fire people and that's not easy, that's not fun.
You're gonna have to give up potentially.
The stability of having health Benefits and a 401k. These are all sacrifices you make.
They've gotta be proportionally aligned with what your goals are. If you just wanna make $9, $10.
An hour, you don't have to give up anything. You don't have to sacrifice. You can go all weekend and blow your paycheck every single weekend.
If you want to get to the place where you can say these words, you've got to sacrifice. Do what others won't, so one day you can do what others can't.
