An Entrepreneur’s Axioms

Tim O’Brien has been an entrepreneur for almost thiry years. Along the way, he’s written and followed these entrepreneur’s axioms:

1. If you can’t see over the cliff, you don’t live close enough to the edge.
2. Are you playing checkers in the chess game of life?
3. Finding solutions for your clients and not clients for your solutions is the fastest way to success, (and the least expensive too).
4. If you always travel in your comfort zone, you’ll never arrive at success.
5. Develop eyes for opportunity. Certainly consider alternatives, but dwell on the rewards of success.
6. Be a contrarian, sprint the curves and walk the straight-aways.
7. If the situation gets tense, try appropriate humor. It often breaks the tension and melts the ice.
8. Do it now! Every day that you don’t, makes it more likely that you won’t and brings you closer to the day you can’t.
9. Keep balance: move at a controlled high speed when working. Observe school zone limits for down time, vacations and family.
10. Faith is confident action taken in the face of uncertainty.

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