Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Own it - 24/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

Like the previous lesson, this is something I learnt near the very beginning of my time as an entrepreneur. In fact I learnt these are the same time.Why climb the corporate ladder when you can own it? It means: why work for another company, which is ultimately another entrepreneur's dream and vision, when you can start and work on your company and build your own vision.When you work for another business, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that, it is just not the smartest move. When you work for the other business you are someone else's leverage and you are working to build someone else's dream.Rather than scrabbling your way to the top of a business: start your own business and define your own rules, products to sell and times you work. This way, you are also automatically right at the top of the business.That way, all the rewards and results are yours.Have the tenacity (thus increase your comfort zone) to start your own business and then you are at the top automatically.And when you come to float the company on the stock exchange, you sell your stock and can make more money than spending years working your way to the top. But this is a another topic.The point is: why climb another companies' ladder, spending years working for someone else, when if you had the tenacity to start your own business, then you are at the top automatically. And all the rewards and opportunities are yours by default. People will look up to you and you can decide on what your companies does, rather than someone else deciding for you.Why work for another company when you can start your own?There are another 100 mistakes that I madehere.