If you want to buy a business, but are holding back because you don't think you're "qualified" or "educated" enough to do it, then please read this article very carefully.

I've bought over 200 businesses over the past 50 years and have helped thousands of others do the same thing via my seminars and home-study course. And the thing that startles most of the people I've talked with is it's almost always a lot easier than they thought it would be.

I know that sounds strange, but it's true. The key thing we have found in going back to check on our successful people, is the fact that the success these people enjoy has had nothing to do with race, creed, color, sex, national origin -- any of those things.

Nor did it have anything to do with their IQ levels. In fact, I've seen people with "room temperature" IQ's successfully buy large, multi-million dollar businesses while watching Harvard educated "brainiacs" make fools of themselves trying to buy small "mom and pop" pizza joints. It happens all the time. And the reason why is because of this thing called "persistence."

That's the whole key. Because when you go out there to get involved in business and youre getting started -- whether youre buying an existing business or starting one -- you're going to find it's not technically complicated at all. I mean, there are only so many ways to look at a profit & loss statement and balance sheet. But, what knocks most people out of the game is the fact that a lot of things are going to go wrong. A lot of people are going to put you down. People are going to tell you it doesnt work. People are going to tell you that you couldnt possibly get in business, or just look at you and say, You? Youve got to be kidding.

And believe it or not, that's the hardest part of buying a business. Which is good news for you. Because if you can make it through the peer pressure, nay-sayers and learn to turn off the TV (and block out bad news), you're more than half way to buying a business right out the gate.