Is Business Harder These Days?

[OldJack]

I have the feeling that business is a lot harder these days. Competition is always pretty fierce and every market seems to be pretty much saturated.

I might be completely wrong, but I feel that succeeding in business these days is alot harder than maybe 25 - 30 years ago. There seems to be alot more red-tape and lots more competition (as already mentioned above).

I would be pretty interested to hear some feedback on this, especially from those of you that may have started a business in the 70's or even early 80's.

Is it much tougher now, or am I just disillusioned.