Mike Andes and a co-speaker argue that entrepreneurs lie to themselves about why they start businesses. Claiming you're in it for purpose or impact is self-deceptive. The honest version: you want to make money. That clarity is actually liberating.
You're lying to yourself, especially as a business owner, if you're telling the world that you're not in it for monetary gain. I don't like telling people that because it's pretty self-absorbed.
You know how liberating it is to say, "I'm just in it to make a bunch of money"?
Yeah, I mean, that's why I started a business. Because it's more inspiring.
Your boss coming in here every single day and telling you about how you should do your finances and you should be a better man, you should be trying to do this and improve this in your life and think about budgeting, you should wanna become your own business owner. Or just my boss that I knew started mowing grass a few years ago, becoming extremely wealthy and hiring a bunch of people and making a huge impact in the community and having freedom with his family, do what he wants. That's big enough of something that I'm like, I'll do whatever he's doing. And I don't need to say anything because they'll just pick up on the fact that, oh, he does show up early, he does work hard, and he does all these other things that led to that success. No one will listen to me if I didn't have money. Yeah.
