Entrepreneur should be LAZY- Edison had tricked the World!

Edison's quote is often interpreted to mean that anyone can be a genius - if they work hard enough. But that 1% inspiration, like many apparently small differences, is crucial.

Humans share 98.5% of their DNA with chimpanzees, but it's the 1.5% that makes all the difference.

I prefer to look at Edison's quote from another angle. You may be blessed with a spark of genius, but if you don't partner that with the necessary effort (the 99% perspiration), your talent is likely to be wasted.


Frank

Doesn't really work like that IMO, just try and be lazy in your IM endeavors for 1-2 weeks, see how well it goes.

Kinda agree with this as I'm a really lazy myself and that's why I ended up persuing internet marketing.... So I wouldn't have to slog my guts of 10 hours a day.

James Scholes

Well that is kinda true, if your too lazy to write articles outsource it, too lazy to post blogs outsource it. Basically when you have the funds it is much better to outsource all this stuff anyway as you will earn and be able to work on other projects to earn more, or just bum around on a beach somewhere!

Sorry, but that "speech" is nonsense that completely mischaracterizes the Edison quote.

I don't think being lazy is awesome. I mean you don't have to work like a slave but working on what you love and what you want to succeed in it important.

People who are lazy made elevators but then again they worked hard to acquire the knowledge of how to make them. they did not learn it without any work

I'm not sure this is about being lazy.

It's about identification of problems and invented solutions based upon simplicty and usability and the worlds reflective demand for those two factors.

If people look back or use only what they already have there is no innovation.

I'm sure you posting this information on a forum on a computer doesn't make you lazy, in contrast to getting out of your chair to hand deliver (the postal service would be lazy too right?) your message to 1385 recipients around the globe.

Anyone calling Edison lazy is a showboating fool. I stopped reading right there. If it wasn't for Thomas Edison this clown would be counting his money on an abacus.

Daniel Evans pretty much hammered the proper response.

While the creations themselves may seem simple, lazy, or any of the above...the process of reaching the point they are currently at now is anything but lazy. Anything that helps make someone else's life easier will always sell/be popular.

though I may disagree partially, what i gather from this is that the people who invented all these are in their own way problem solvers...

So... what we can learn here is that, we can all be problem solvers and come out with products and services to help solve problems for the lazy people

They weren't lazy - they found a niche - a need in the marketplace and filled the void. Then they got rewarded financially for doing it!

Maybe they were lazy and maybe they weren't.

One thing's for sure: they made a heck of a lot of money *selling* solutions to lazy people

Yes...

What Jack Ma mean is not the stupid lazy

If you want to be able to work less, you have to think of ways to do it, clever ways to be allowed to be lazy...

Lazy? Thomas Edison was far from lazy. He was continually working on something. Just because his work was mostly brain work, doesn't make it less work - he just wasn't busting his back. I toured his home in Florida. Do you know he kept a cot in his lab and slept only 20 minutes every four hours for years at a time? When he was up he was thinking and calculating.

Ford, too. People often think that he was partly sham because he was a "button pusher". He didn't know everything it took to build his cars and company. He did, however, know who to call on to solve whatever he wasn't sure how to. That took some work in the form of real solid research to know who to call on for what.

There are a lot of people in this world who think that if someone isn't busting their back, it isn't work - or the only way is via the conventional method. It really shocks me to think that because Gates was self educated that he did less work learning than he would have if he were in school. He didn't drop out because he was lazy - he dropped out because he wasn't getting what he needed from the classes. He had ideas he wanted to see to fruitation and to do so he needed to be able to direct his focus on learning exactly what he needed to know to do it. That most likely took 3 times the work he'd ever have done via conventional schooling.

Outsourcing is not a sign of laziness either. You still have to know what direction you are taking things. That takes planning. You have to be able to choose effective help and communicate sufficiently with them, then either use or hire someone else to use that work sufficiently. If you are just sitting back doing nothing, nothing is going to happen. Maybe after you build your business to a point that you can let others run it you can sit back, but the main purpose of outsourcing is to get the parts of the business done that you either have no extra time for or that you do not do well yourself. Once a business gets big enough, you aren't going to be able to do it all on your own even if you freaking do know how.

But if you want to think that being lazy will get you somewhere - be our guest to just sit back and wait for stuff to happen.

This post just won my "Most Ludicrous Idea of the Week" award.

If the lazy frame of mind is what helps you be the most productive and make it - then go for it.

For me personally it's about creating value and delivering it beyond what the client expects.

Being lazy is the last thing in my mind... although it does happen more often than I wold like =D