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Entrepreneurship lessons to learn from ‘Pursuit of Happyness’ - Start-Up Hyderabad
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Five Lessons From “The Pursuit Of Happyness”
- Being an entrepreneur means facing challenges. Despair not, keep trying, your lucky break may be close.
- Have high aspirations. Chris dreamt of being a stockbroker even when he was struggling as an intern.
- Never show your weaknesses. Chris was a homeless father but he behaved and presented himself in a way no one would think him so.
- Don’t let others opinions hinder your journey. Chris’s partner thought his idea of becoming a stockbroker was an absurd.
- Work towards achieving what you want. While working as a salesman, Chris encounters a successful stockbroker driving a nice car, decides he wants a similar life and starts working relentlessly towards it.
- The current economic status won’t determine your future. Be adaptable and don’t allow it to effect long term planning.
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The Movie “The Pursuit Of Happyness”
Based on Chris Gardner’s true-life story, the ‘Pursuit of Happyness” is the story of a single father and his journey from homeless unpaid intern to owning a brokerage firm.
The film shows how the single struggling salesman manages to sustain the expenses of himself and his son in the increasingly unstable economic climate.
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“You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People who can’t do something themselves will tell you that you can’t do it. ”
Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
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