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Anecdotes, Wisdom, and Insights from a Serial Entrepreneur
Serial entrepreneur Robert Naismith has enjoyed a diverse career full of fascinating sharp turns and rewards. While founding and launching several companies and a medical school, he experienced both challenges and disappointments as well as tremendous successes. Throughout his career, he learned to believe in and practice simple guidelines that propelled him over obstacles to achieve more than he ever imagined.
With the intent of offering other professionals and entrepreneurs a wealth of encouragement and wisdom, Naismith chronicles his career path, rooted in humble beginnings that included the untimely death of his father and a return to work for his mother when he was only seven.
As he leads others through his inspiring journey as he matured, gained confidence, and began seeing every possibility, Naismith shares insight into how he learned to build value within; utilized perseverance, self-motivation, passion, and hard work to attain goals; extracted lessons from failures; planned for an unpredictable future; and reinvented himself to grow personally and professionally to realize his dreams.
Opportunity Starts Within shares the insightful narrative of a serial entrepreneur’s professional journey as he tackled challenges and overcame fears and failures to make valued contributions to his community and beyond.
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