Entrepreneurial spirit

Having read vast examples of rags-to riches stories, I came to the conclusion that an entrepreneur lives in every of us and the degree of this spirit depends on the personality first of all, then, on the atmosphere a person surrounded by, on conditions he or she was brought up in, on the level of risks he or she is willing to take. However, we can both control and raise this spirit by special techniques that were described before. All people are entrepreneurs, but unfortunately, many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Even though those stories with happy ends (those with bad ends we’ll never know) represents great example of how to achieve the goals and be successful, all of them had their share of struggles, faults, and weaknesses too. 

The names of John Rockefeller, Aristotle Onassis, Ted Turner, Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Estee Lauder ring a bell, don’t they? Some were inheritors of vast wealth who chose to make it on their own. Others were made famous by showbiz or their colorful lifestyles. Nevertheless, in the end, the stories of their lives can provide an inspiration to all of us because they fit the definition of the true entrepreneur: someone who takes risk with great reward in sight. 

When most people will be dying to finish a degree from Harvard, Bill Gates, whose interest in computers and programming started at an early age, decided to dropout to manage a small business, he and his partner, Paul Allen, called Microsoft. And as it was said in the article, Famous Entrepreneurs by Daegan Smith, his assets were estimated thereabouts $46 billion dollars in 2004.

By no means this is not the only example for prospering and becoming the cliché of famous entrepreneurs. Born out of wedlock and a victim of molestation, Oprah Winfrey studied and worked hard to have a television career - starting as a news reporter and anchor and emerging as one of the most prominent talk show hosts and businesswomen in the world8.

Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are just two out of many famous entrepreneurs that we can see in the business world today. Those examples give us a good and quite revealing hint of the techniques and methods that we may use to achieve financial freedom. This gives us insights that are invaluable, and it will probably teach us how to get wealth and achieve greatness. This is also lesson that will help us to see and expand the development in the same spirit of entrepreneurship that these rich and famous entrepreneurs shared.


 8. Women Entrepreneurs, Lalitha Rani, 2000