Richard R RamosRichard R. Ramos. Founder of Parents on a Mission,Youth on a Mission, and Latino Coalition for Community Leadership

The True Heart of Entrepreneurship: Compassion and Adding Value

12 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, speaker A and entrepreneur Richard R. Ramos discuss how resilience and confidence are forged through confronting failure, a core trait for successful entrepreneurship. Ramos shares his personal background in sports, recounting his aspirations to play professional baseball for the Los Angeles Dodgers and highlighting how athletic experiences teach essential entrepreneurial skills such as teamwork, discipline, cooperation, and socialization. He emphasizes that sports also serve as a unifying force, bringing together individuals of varied ethnicities and religions, thereby illustrating how diverse collaboration can be cultivated in business contexts.

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And they pivot and they get resilience and they learn about failure and they get the confidence to know that they can be successful.
Yeah, the confidence to overcome failure. Right. And that's really huge. And you mentioned sports a few times. That was me and my brother. That was all we ever wanted to do and what we did and wanted to play professional, me for the Dodgers because I grew up in LA near Dodger Stadium. And, um, but, or, you know, very few, as you already mentioned, very few athletes make it to the pro level, or maybe even acting, very few. You know, it's a very elite group of people that get to that, but it's through that process, like your son, you learn teamwork, you learn discipline, you learn cooperation. You know, you learn socialize, being social with other people, and then your sports brings ethnicities and religion people, brings us all together.