In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.
I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.
Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.