…to earn considerable wealth.
The secret is this: never — never, ever — act on impulse and throw money into a franchise deal. And never start a business with zero experience, just opening up shop on sheer faith.
If you want to run your own business, the best path — without question — is to enter the field you’re interested in and start from the very bottom as the most junior employee. Work there seriously. Think carefully about every aspect of the operation, every concrete detail of how things run. Then turn it over in your mind again and again until you truly understand it.
Say you want to open a bubble tea shop. First, go work at a few of the hottest brands and shake drinks with your own hands for three months.
Learn every operational detail of the entire shop — how products are selected, how orders flow, how delivery platforms are managed, how inventory is tracked, how the cashier system works, how staff are trained.
Trust me: in any business, the absolute first step to success is always solid fundamentals.
And solid fundamentals are not something you pick up by glancing at a few things or watching a couple of other people’s videos. That’s a complete, systematic discipline — and the only way to truly master it is through hands-on experience, followed by deliberate reflection.
Why do so many white-collar workers and stay-at-home mothers keep failing at entrepreneurship?
At its core: a lack of reverence.
They think they’re a little clever. They assume running a small business is easy money — and then the inevitable disaster follows.
There’s a TV drama, for instance, with a white-collar couple — both sharp, both successful — who lose their jobs and decide to sell prepared food at the market. They take it for granted: How could we possibly fail at this? We’re so capable.
But understand this: every cooked-food stall that survives in a market is run by someone who has honed their business instincts to a razor’s edge.
Small scale doesn’t mean simple. Those operators have a profound understanding of their sourcing channels, quality control, pricing strategy, and customer relationships.
Take your Master Chi, for example. You see me carrying myself with confidence, connecting major merchants, large capital players, and social networks of all kinds. But when I was young and just starting out in small business, I would always — before truly beginning — go spend three months as a laborer, starting from scratch, learning the fundamentals of that business seriously and thoroughly.
That’s what it means to be calm, rational, and genuinely responsible to yourself.
Let me leave you with one more thing to remember: in any business, the most important starting capital is never money.
It is the professional energy that fills you to overflowing — and the absolute confidence that comes from having completely mastered your industry.