TrueNYC has made it a goal to interview as many entrepreneurs as possible to find some important answers. What do these individuals have that so many of us want to emulate? While searching for the answer to that question, it has become clear that no secret answer or magic formula exists for these entrepreneurs' successes. Over the course of hundreds of interviews, however, common characteristics have emerged again and again in successful people from a variety of backgrounds. Here, TrueNYC founder David Schnurman shares a glimpse of what he's learned about what it takes to make it.