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Here’s the best definition of an entrepreneur I’ve ever heard:

“Entrepreneurs are people who are too naive to see the obstacles that are obvious to others”.

I have found myself quoting this phrase a couple times over the past week or so, and while I can’t remember who said it, or if that’s the quote exactly, that pretty much sums it up for me.

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Nov 14/07
2:23 am
Heather says:

Funny… I heard it another way

“Entrepreneurs are people who treat obstacles as daily exercise”

Nov 14/07
8:50 am

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Nov 14/07
6:54 pm
Schwabe says:

I like it! Yet the concept is a double-edged sword.

An entrepreneur can overcome obstacles & achieve a high level of success with this “naive perspective” although…

Conversely, if you’ve got the wrong strategy - the harder you work the deeper of a whole you dig. All the hard work, commitment & dedication in the world will do nothing with no plan.

You could be “doing all the right things for the wrong people”. So i think it’s important to maintain macro perspective.

—Schwabe

Nov 17/07
4:10 am
Luis says:

So many people love to call themselves entrepreneurs, but they are slaves of their own business.

Entrepreneurs are the ones who work ON a business, not IN a business.

If you can go away for a two month vacation, and your business is still there when you return, then you’re an entrepreneur.

I’m a slave of mine, because it’s built specifically around what I offer personally and professionally, not as a systematized beast that can grow on its own.

I’m not an entrepreneur.

Luis

Nov 21/07
3:09 pm
Kemper says:

Gosh I thought the word was “Entomanure”
That’s what I’m into. The word manure came from Middle English “manuren” meaning “to cultivate land,” Well I’m cultivating the web landscape.

Jan 10/08
7:25 pm
Ruth says:

Well good defined meaning for that word “ENTREPRENUER”

Jun 29/08
9:15 am
ly calma says:

you r so stupid mag aral ka nga crazy b animal

2 me

Jul 18/08
4:31 am
kane says:

i like to become an entrepreneur someday,


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