re: Successful business owners, did the people around you support your endeavors?

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When my first business attempt failed my dad, who had the same job for like 20 years at that point, told me to give up and get a steady job. Later on, he was my biggest cheerleader but he never understood my desire to own a business. He grew up poor and believed in the stability of a steady job. He never took any risks but always made sure we had everything we needed.

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Kind of the same for me, except no one in my or my wife’s family had ever owned a business and everyone has the steady job mentality. I’ve been lucky in the fact that my wife has a well paying job that has allowed me to take these risks.