To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don't have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor, that you can't quite put your finger on. But the entrepreneurs that have "it" seem to be able to effortlessly get team members, investors, and customers to follow them anywhere.
I just finished a book on this subject, "The Essentials of Fabulous," by Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life, as a writer and journalist. She identifies less than a dozen primary qualities for fabulous people in general, and I have honed and tuned these to ten that apply especially to entrepreneurs, in my experience:
Paying attention to all these things is how you become a fabulous entrepreneur, with the X-factor. I'm sorry, but there is no magic, and it doesn't happen overnight. Of course, it will never happen if you don't start or don't believe. But it's worth the effort, unless you have something better to do?
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