I think the biggest myth entrepreneurs have is that the growth and performance of their startups depends more on their entrepreneurial talent than on the businesses they choose.
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The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.
There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.
Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.
The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.