They told me one time, “Chico..” , that's
another name that I got, by the way, they say, “Chico, you're so lucky, Chico”,
I said, “you know what’s funny?” “The harder I work, luckier I get”.
It's really that simple, because it's
90 percent business, 10 percent talent, and I'm far from talented, but I'll outwork you.
Well, my mother growing up had every job known to man,
I mean, me personally, I went to probably about 25 different schools,
lived in good neighborhoods, bad neighborhoods, worse neighborhoods.
But my mother sold water, I was right there with her knocking on doors,
my mother sold cable, I was right there knocking on doors with her.
She sold Avon, I was right there knocking on doors with her,
Amway, I mean, you name it, she did it, and I learned,
and I think that not only to be an entrepreneur is
thinking outside the box that I agree with 150%,
but I also think it's all about an approach. And not only an approach
physically and approach mentally, because if you're chasing money, it runs,
if you're making money is different. So for people that are entrepreneurs, there's no
cut in the corner, there's no magic bullet, there's no cheat sheet,
it's really simple as complex as it may sound, hard work, work hard, believe in yourself.
They told me one time, “Chico..” , that's
another name that I got, by the way, they say, “Chico, you're so lucky, Chico”,
I said, “you know what’s funny?” “The harder I work, luckier I get”.
It's really that simple. Guess what we have to constantly do?
Fight. Because
it's 90 percent business, 10 percent talent, and I'm far from talented, but I'll outwork you,
I’ll outhustle you, and I have a lion’s heart. When I say I, I mean we, I mean
us because there's no way I do this by myself,
we have an amazing team that understands the vision,
which as they say it in Spanish is, “paso corto, vista larga”,
which is, short steps, long vision. And I think everybody now,
we are living in a society that's filled with instant gratification,
instant, instant gratification, but if they only knew,
the more you want things faster, what comes quick leaves quicker.
Because it's easy money, you don't appreciate it, you don't understand it,
so to me, it's not about, building a business and making all this money,
yes, don't get me wrong, there's no hidden agenda here, guys,
we all want to generate I get that point, but man, the priceless part is the journey.
The priceless part is all the noes you went into, all the failures that happen, all the slip ups,
all the times you got knocked down, that is the fun part of the story,
that's why when you get in a circle of people and you're talking to them about success
and you're talking to them about what it's really like,
they respect you and they love to be around you because you admit what it took to get there.
And that, to me, is a true entrepreneur, a true
fighter, someone that goes,
“you knock me down, but wait till I get back up, always going to be so much fun”, you know.
And those are the things that I look forward to.
When you finally realize that that is a part of success
than you can become successful. So as an entrepreneur and everybody is trying to
create something, invent something and be innovative,
just know that it comes with valleys, peaks, ups, downs, speed bumps,
I mean, you name it. That's the priceless
part of being an entrepreneur, I think is the story and the journey.
When people don't believe in what you got going on,
they just did you a favor, you don’t need them in your circle.
And sometimes, you know, said God had a saying and he said,
“I gave you friends to apologize for your family”.
Because sometimes our inner circle are the first ones bringing us down.
And I use this analogy all the time, I say, it's crazy because when you're a baby,
and you go to get up and you go to walk, what‘s the first thing everybody does?
“oh my God, look, oh look at Jimmy's walking, boom Jimmy falls down, get back up,
get back up, come on, come on, hey, everybody, come see this,
and everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah”. You know why Jimmy walks?
Because everybody's motivating him to walk. Well it’s the total opposite as you get older,
you become an adult, you try to become a lawyer or a
doctor or anything you want to do, open a business,
and everybody is, “oh, that's not going to work”. “Why are you even thinking like that?”
“You should just go get a 9-5”. You just do me a favor, thank you,
I appreciate you, you’re just motivating me. And as in this journey, as you take it,
you start to find people that understand your vision
and you motivate them, they motivate you, and that's where you really become a team
and you start to execute and start to bring things to life.
If you're going to be an entrepreneur, make sure that it's about that fight
and you're doing something that you really believe in.
Second piece of advice, patience, passion and perseverance, equal success.
And the third piece is there's no losing, only learning,
there's no failure, only opportunities and no problems, only solutions.
If you can take that and really apply it, I promise you anything that you believe in
and that you fighting for out there will come to life.