The lesson of spartans

The Spartan people are reputed to be a warrior people, prepared to face the hardest of adversities. The strength of the Spartan lies in its character. This is where his greatest conviction comes from: "Let each one of us stand firm on his legs", says one of the writings with which they indoctrinated their young people.
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You can disagree a lot about their training methods. However, one can also learn from the attitude of the Spartans. In ancient times, for example, the shield was a powerful defensive weapon. Letting the enemy take away your shield was a humiliation, a disgrace, because for the enemy the shield is a trophy. So when they went to a battle, the Spartans always had the habit of picking up the bodies of their dead men and transporting them over their shields like gurneys. For that reason, when the young Spartan left for war, his mother said to him: "return with the shield or on the shield."
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Obviously, the slogan is one: you have to win or die in the attempt. In fact, a Spartan quote reads as follows: "How glorious the brave fall, sword in hand, in front of the battle for their native land!" The winners lose with honor, in front of the battle. That attitude is what we have to have entrepreneurs: fight for our sleep until the end, until burning the last cartridge. What we see, however, is the attitude of the adventurer, who is the one who enters the game to try his luck and not to win. The adventurer is the one who says: "let's see how it goes", "you have to try." The attitude of the winner is completely different, because the winner plays to win.
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He does not try, he does. Once a successful entrepreneur expressed himself in a conference as follows: "I am the kind of person who, when he does something, does it to win. If I had not succeeded in moving my business forward, in my grave I would say: "here lies a man who died fighting for his dream. "
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That is the attitude that counts. If you are going to start, start to win. As it happened in Sparta: A woman, seeing her son approaching, asked her: "What does the country do?" And he replied: "All have died." She took a sword and killed him, saying: if we sent you to bring us bad news? "