Most top marketing entrepreneurs have their rags-to-riches stories: from waiting tables to millionaire by the age of 28 from living on the streets to owning multiple homes.

While all these stories arouse feelings hope and inspiration, the trek up the road to success is really a bit more nasty.

Take into consideration Mike Michalowicz’s approach and try asking yourself this, “A ‘Toilet Paper Entrepreneur’, is that me?”

Real entrepreneurialism, as Mike puts it is like this bathroom experience: You are doing your “business”, and when it’s done, you suddenly find out that there are only 3 sheets of toilet paper left! Out of necessity, you are then forced to be creative and inventive to be able to leave the bathroom smelling fresh.

[I:http://alanjonesuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ArtBasmajian28.jpg]In the network marketing industry, Serious Entrepreneurs achieve success by not merely sitting and waiting for someone to “give them a roll of toilet paper.”

They take matters into their own hands and search within reach that they use. If you must, dig through the garbage, or use the roll of cardboard instead and move on.

Serious Entrepreneurs don’t make excuses and don’t have patience for people who do.

These are things that you will never hear them say. . .

“Right now, I don’t have enough money.”

“I’m not smart enough for that.”

“I don’t have the time. I’m too busy.”

“Businesses take too long to build.”

“There’s too much risk involved.”

“I’m too old for that.”

They don’t sit back on the loo and wait for the toilet paper. They grab it, or they make it. In the same way, they don’t wait for their dreams to come true. They MAKE it come true.

They don’t wait until they have enough money to fund a new venturethey find creative ways to finance their project by exploiting their own strengths.

On a lighter note, most millionaires live frugal lives: Warren Buffett, for example, is third on Forbes’ list of the richest people in the world, but still he remains living in the house in Omaha, Nebraska that he bought for $31,500 forty years ago.

Contrary to popular belief, they focus on one project at a time until its finish. They don’t multitask.

Nor are they perfectionists. They’re the ones who say “Good is good enough.”

Because they know that money likes speed.

They have this thinking that by the time the sales letters, website design, or ad campaigns have been perfected, competition have taken the concept and run away with it.

They take take action, instead of taking a long time on planning and making revisions.

They are thrill seekers, but they have gone out of their way to calculate the risks involved.

Dick Costolo, founder of Feedburner.com said, “The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike is to stop thinking about ‘there are a bunch of reasons I might fall off’ and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way.”

Serious Entrepreneurs do not need toilet paper.

Why so? Because for sure they have a napkin to spare in one of their pockets with another million dollar project written on the other side.

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