What Is The Biggest Obstacle to Success?

Roberto asks what do you feel is a bigger obstacle to success a lack of time or a lack of capital Roberto this is a tremendous question I think the biggest obstacle uh to success is a lack of optimism that question in itself is the problem my friend right you're looking at two things that are both negatives and guess what both of them are obstacles when I started wine library. com transformation from my business I had time I worked my face off every minute but we didn't have a whole lot of money in our profit Center so it took more time right it's just the way it is today I have more money but boy don't I have time but neither ever will be an excuse for me and so just to drill this through the throat of the vayer nation that's right I went that graphic don't smile dck here's the bottom line I refuse to allow you to get an answer to that question because both of them are firmly Square in the excuse column and I have no patience for that there will always be problems let's talk about a million other things that are a way to stop success the health and well-being of your family members so it takes your mind away from execution the country you live in government and political you know Concepts at these moments Allah startups in China that I've invested in that got traction but then people that were wired into the government decided to not allow it to happen and then the startup disappeared not as easy to be an entrepreneur there it's still communist country sorry it just is and so all these things can be problems right there's a competitor with a billion dollars who's also skilled and punches you in the mouth and knocks you out in the first round right the world changing I mean there's just a million obstacles right the media one bad coverage of you a moment in time you know what I think about a lot let's get really real this is why we did this show I always I'm a human being and I always think about a moment in time what if I just say the wrong thing at the wrong time right what if I call out China for being a communist country in an episode while I'm on a rant and somebody who's watching doesn't like the way that tastes and it takes away a business opportunity for me in China in seven years even though I'm not trying to Zing it's just things that I saw what if you know what if I look down on my phone while I'm driving even know I've really not done that and I hit somebody and I kill them and that becomes the story and they like forget about the story about what you think of me I will never recover from that because I killed somebody because I needed to check a tweet these are moments in time so there are so many things that can keep you from being successful right the people that you invested in having something B happen to them so it slows you down my friends there are a million reasons why not but there's one great reason why which is you've just got to persevere no matter what it is it's just the way it is it's hard being an entreprene rur it's hard building a business everybody thinks it's so easy that there's an entitlement there's a disaster zinging China here comes my us Zing right now there is an insane generation of 18 to 25 year olds right now that think they're entitled to having a business because they saw The Social Network movie and everybody's decided if you're a kid and you know what tech is because you used Instagram early on you're entitled to actually build a business building a business is hard and you know what makes it really hard everything that happens every day of every moment so you can pick time you can pick money as the one or two things that you think stop you from winning your game but the truth is there's a million reasons 99% of businesses go out of business for a reason and that reason is it's hard and so if you're watching this show I've got a sense of who you are and you need to start creating layers and layers and layers of skin to be able to get through because the glamour of being an entrepreneur the goodness you know you get very confused by my optimism because it's my optimism I can't help it it's just how I roll it's probably one of the variable 1% reasons why I'm successful but please don't get it twisted this is hard every day is hard and if you don't have the stomach to weather the storm you will not be successful and by the way let me throw you a real weird curveball and that's okay people have to look themselves in the mirror and understand if they're a number 2 3 4 5 6 7 in an organization that has different of being a number one but maybe that's where your skill set sits maybe that's how you make your fortunes and happiness and all the things that you're looking for and so that question got me going a little bit Steve because um it's under the context of excuses and uh I will never make an excuse everything that's a problem with me everything I don't achieve Vayner media and everything is my fault and I succumb to that and I respect that and I actually think that the way it should be and so um no excuses my

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