You Don’t Need Money To Start A Business.
One day, a little boy went to his father and said, Dad, I want to build the tallest building in our village. The father looked at him and told him, stop looking at the tall building. It starts with one block, and two, then three, and four. The boy was unhappy with his father’s advice. So he asked, how can one, two and three blocks become a skyscraper? The father answered everything starts from zero. I’ll explain the details of this story as we go on in this video, as I try to use this video to share with you the reason why you don’t need money to start a business. If you are new here, consider subscribing so you won’t miss other interesting lessons like this.
To start with. I think you, and I, need to be on the same page. When I said that you do not need money to start a business. I mean, you do not need your money to start a business. I mean, you do not need to have money to start a business. I mean, if as you’re following this video, you have zero dollars to your name, that is still not enough excuse not to start a business.
Zero to one hundred.
I’ve talked about the concept of zero to 100 in one of our videos and I think a lot of people liked it. So I want to talk about it again. You see, it is very important for you as a potential entrepreneur to understand that entrepreneurship is not the process of turning 50 to 100. Entrepreneurship is the process of turning zero to 100. If I can convince the whole world to understand this simple concept, we will have too many companies this time next year. You see, the reason why most people cannot be an entrepreneur is that they are waiting for the 50 they will turn to 100. When people wait for the 50, they will turn to 100. Most times they will not see the 50. And then they will make excuses that the reason why they can not start a business, is that they don’t have money. No, you do not need to have money to build a business. You just need to learn and know how to turn zero to 100.
How do you turn zero to 100?
My life was drastically changed around the years 2007, 2008. What happened was that, for the first time in my life, I came across the concept of OPM, other people’s money. I later understood OPT other people’s time and OPB, other people’s brains. When I understood this concept, I was born into a new world, a new world of unlimited possibilities. Instead of thinking and worrying about what I didn’t have, I started learning how to get what I don’t have, from the people who have it. Is it not that interesting. What if you can learn how to get whatever you need from the people who have it? What if you can get all the money you need to start a business, from the people who have the money? What if you can get all the time you need to build a company, from the people who have it? What if you can get all the brainpower you need, from the people who have it?
Yes! You can get everything you need to start a business, from the people who do have those things. I am not telling you motivational words here. I am telling you about the game I’ve played for many years. I took myself from extreme poverty to a reasonable wealth, just by learning how to get whatever I needed from whoever had it. If you can get everything you need, from the people who have them. You will never complain that you didn’t start a business because you didn’t have money.
The Impossible World.
I was listening to Gary Vee on YouTube and I heard him saying, you always see what you’re looking for. This statement resonates so much with me because I grew up in one of the most negative societies you can ever imagine. I’m an African. And if you are an American or European, I am sorry. There are no words for me to describe the kind of society where I grew up. You just can’t understand.
I mean, a world where almost everyone I knew believes that the way to success is in hellfire. The world where the media never writes or see any positive thing about. The world where nobody in your family, will ever encourage you to do anything extraordinary. But in this very world, I decided to look for the possibility of building a company, even though I had no money. I learned about negotiation. I read about humans and how their brains work, I read tons of books about business life and how people rose from zero to 100. As I read, I took action. As I took action, I made mistakes and failed. The more I acted, the more I got feedback in form of mistakes and the better I became.
Napoleon Hill once said, “there are too many resources in the world, for those who know how to get it.” And I can tell you that that’s true. At a point in my entrepreneurial life, I had to reject someone who wanted to invest in my business, because I already had more than enough money from someone else. But again, someone will say that is not possible in my country. Well, you always see what you look for. Whatever you believe is possible, is what you will learn how to achieve. If I didn’t believe that, it is possible to build a company without money. I wouldn’t wake up every day to learn how to achieve it. If you think it is not possible, to get all the resources you need to start a business from others. I respect your opinion and wish you good luck.
The world needs proof.
I have met so many people who wanted to start a business and said, no one helps me. The question I ask them is, have you proved that you believe in your vision? You see, I’ve often said on this platform that nobody cares about you. And many people have misinterpreted that, for what I mean, when I say that nobody cares about you. I do not mean that people don’t love you. Instead, I mean that every human thinks about themselves first, and you only come second. You are the only person in the world, that can think about you first. So do not ever expect that anyone else believes you when you have not shown that you believe in yourself.
If you want to see what I’m seeing in the practical sense, I appeal to you to watch Shark Tank. Shark Tank is a TV show where entrepreneurs try to get investors to invest in their business. Watch the show and notice the kinds of businesses these investors invest in. Two things become obvious. First, sharks never invest in any idea except they perceived that the owner of the idea believes in his idea. Second, how do I know you believe in your idea? Is that you have done something about it. You have started it in a little way. You have tested the market, and you have proof that people want your product. Most people who want to start a business do not believe in the business idea. This shows that you have done nothing about the idea. If you believe in your business idea, you will have the courage that requires you to start in a small way. Study your industry, and know what nobody else knows about that business idea. If you believe in your business idea, you will wake up every morning to do something about it. And when you fail, you never give up because you believe that your idea can change some lives.
Enthusiasm is contagious.
When you believe in your business ideas so strongly, you have the power to make other people believe in them. And when other people believe in it, they will be willing to support you to accomplish the mission.
Building a skyscraper from the middle.
Remember the story I told you at the beginning, the boy wanted to build a skyscraper, but he didn’t want to start with a single block. Most potential entrepreneurs are like that boy. And that is why they never get anyone to support their vision again. Entrepreneurship is not about turning 50 to 100, it is about turning zero to 100. Do you want to build a skyscraper? You have to first believe in that vision. You have to first believe that, building a skyscraper will make the world a better place, then go and buy the first block. If you do not have money to buy a block, go and do hard labor to get the money. Make the one blocks two, and two blocks four, make four blocks eight and make eight blocks 16.
As you are building, keep on learning and believing in yourself. Trust the process, read good books from the people who have achieved what you want to achieve, and learn about the subject an average man won’t care about. Learn about human psychology, negotiation, and marketing. Learn about human relationships and leadership. If you do not know the books you should read, on these subjects. Search on Google for the best books on any one of these. As you struggle to build one block and another and learn, then try and persuade people to support your vision.
Please note, you do not try and persuade people to support non-existing businesses, because no reasonable person will support such. You can only get people to support you with 100000 blocks after you’ve already gotten one hundred blocks on your own. This is because your action is a sign that you have faith in yourself. If you can’t figure out how to labor hard to get 100 blocks on your own, nobody will support you to get one hundred thousand blocks, you are waiting for. Stay blessed!