One of the joys of Mr. Flores is to help others learn to help themselves. He has given advice to several thousand individuals during his lifetime either through his many classes on entrepreneurship that he has conducted, or face-to-face with those that seek his assistance. The idea of "being your own boss" is an exciting thought for many, but fear keeps many from taking the "risk" of doing what they really want to do, yet never realizing what might have been because of that fear. No doubt there is justification for this fear, but too often it is not the fear of the venture, but rather the fear of failure that keeps many from ever trying. With life, those are the consequences. If Edison had not failed a thousand times before he finally succeeded, we might not have had electricity for many more years or until someone not being afraid of failure would have succeeded. What is common with many of the great men of history is that they were failures before they succeeded, and the thing that made them different from the multitudes around them was that "they got up after being knocked down and went at it again!"  As Mr. Flores tells his students and clients, "Life is not a bed of roses and once in a while a thorn hidden among the beautiful roses is going to stick you and maybe even draw blood, but that doesn't keep you from touching roses again." In life, many of us aren't born with a silver spoon in our mouths so you just have to go out into the world and create your own silver spoon in spite of the many times you might get knocked down! As Winston Churchill so eloquently stated to the English people in the midst of World War II: "Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up!"