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What Is An Entrepreneur?
An entrepreneur can be looked at in two quite separate ways -
- The usual understanding of an entrepreneur is based on economics and business, i.e. an individual who accepts financial risks and undertakes new financial ventures. Although new ventures are risky with 80% of them failing in the first five years, yet there is no shortage of people to start them. Such entrepreneurs have an essential optimism and self confidence in their ability to make something positive happen, and measure its success by making money. However the motivation of most entrepreneurs isn't just to make money, but is much more about being able to work for themselves, to be responsible for the successful outcome of their efforts, and to be their own boss.
- Success philosophers say that we are all entrepreneurs responsible for our own lives, with each of us as the Managing Director of the business called "Me Limited". Okay, it might be a small business, but each of us is responsible for it in just the same way as we would be for a real business. The big difference is that this business carries on until you die. You can't retire from it , and it carries on even if you go bankrupt. You can make a success of it, or it can be a failure. It's all up to you.
The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities. - Michael Gerber
Everyone Is An Entrepreneur
Everyone is an entrepreneur in charge of our own life and destiny. The choices you make each day determine how much control you actually have over your own life, and the lives of those you love, because this is a journey you cannot make on your own.
You are born into the world as a result of other people's entrepreneurship and are quite helpless, but babies soon learn how to relate to their parents, and the two way exchange of love and warmth and ideas happens. During childhood you develop your own personality and your own view of how the world works. This is refined throughout life as you gain increasing independence and become more responsible for your own actions. Standing on your own feet and becoming responsible for your own actions are entrepreneurial skills which will lead to you becoming responsible for your own life. The alternative is moving on from being looked after by your parents, to being looked after at school, then at work, then in marriage, and never truly being responsible for yourself. Working on "Me Ltd" through life is essential to personal and business success.
Business entrepreneurs just take the whole process further and take their confidence into a new endeavour. The ones that succeed use their knowledge, skills and passions to work for them. This can start in a small way and grow gradually as you learn new skills and gain experience.
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The Brand Called You by P Montoya & T Vandehey No matter how well you may have done in the past, until you develop your own unique personal brand, you will only be skimming the surface of the true potential that lies within youAvailable as a book from Amazon UK |
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The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents.- Michael Gerber
Other Interesting Links
- Entrepreneurship as Disease by Jeff Stibel
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