Creating great things matters more than pursuing wealth. If you want to become a successful entrepreneur, stop chasing money. That’s the general principle he followed

and champions—the subject of today’s article, Thomas Gorny, the entrepreneur who went from bankruptcy to becoming a millionaire.

Gorny’s dramatic story is full of lessons we can learn from and put to use. He grew up in a poor neighborhood in Poland, then immigrated to the United States

in his late teens, where he started his own business and made millions—only to lose them in an instant before earning them back again.

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Gorny now owns Nextiva, a cloud-based communications company headquartered in Arizona, USA. Gorny’s company employs

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ومن From Gorny’s rise and fall to his rise again,we can draw several lessons he shared in an interview with Entrepreneur.com.

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1. Don’t judge others by their appearance or the way they speak.

Jury says everyone mocked him when he started his businesses in the United States. This was because his Eastern European accent made it difficult for him to

pronounce English correctly. He says people treated him like “that stupid Polish kid.” He ignored the ridicule and used it

as motivation to move forward and pursue his path. This earned him everyone’s respect and taught him his first lesson: don’t judge others by their appearance or accent.

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2. Don’t be afraid of failure.

Jury’s first company was a computer distribution business based in Germany. To cover the costs of moving to the United States

He sold the company, but the proceeds were only enough to support him for eight months. That was when he began thinking about starting a new venture and how to fund it.

He worked at a variety of jobs and lived on no more than $3 a day. After succeeding in this venture, he sold it in 1998.

Gurney then invested in real estate, but after one of the crises that hit America, he lost almost everything and was back to square one.

Five years after first arriving in the United States, he picked himself up and returned. He never lost hope, even for a moment, until he was back in the spotlight.

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3. View the service and product from the user’s perspective.

Customers are the best teachers for entrepreneurs. Guided by this principle, Guri learned the value of earning customers’ trust in his products and services by looking at the product...

Or this service from the customer’s perspective, ensuring that it meets a core and important consumer need.

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4. Focus on building the business rather than prioritizing profits.

Moving between success, failure, and success again taught Jory not to focus entirely on money and finances. He says that after losing everything he owned,

he realized that true success lies in focusing on delivering real value to consumers, not on how much money can be made from them. This is the principle

behind Jory’s current company, which led to his remarkable success and his return to having millions of dollars after he was on the verge of bankruptcy.