The 7 Harsh Truths Of Entrepreneurship

Antonio Martina
6 min readSep 26, 2018

Entrepreneurs are those who identify a problem and get to work in order to solve it.

Is that all there is?


Absolutely not.
An entrepreneur is way more than that.
He is the one that instills the vision.
He is the one that pays the bills.
He is the one that takes all the blame, along with the headaches and dizziness, when things don’t go as planned.
And he has to be the hardest worker in the room if he wants his business to succeed.

I follow many entrepreneurs, but one that I admire more than others is Daniel Priestley.
Best-selling author, successful entrepreneur, internationally renowned speaker and philanthropist, he’s been around the block for more than 15 years, building and selling profitable businesses.
He’s now the CEO of Dent, which runs 9-month growth accelerator programmes for small enterprises.
As of recently, he shared 7 truths that any willing person on Earth has to accept if he/she really wants to enjoy the benefits that being an entrepreneur yield. Specifically, these are:

  1. It’s hard and it gets harder

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Antonio Martina

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”