Entrepreneur

When I lost everything after my first business failed, I did not let fear, frustration and doubt stop me from doing what I needed to do. I simply picked up the pieces and got back to work rebuilding my business. Learning from my business mistakes was the best business school I could have attended. And I am still in that school today.

— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich

History is full of success stories of those who ignored conditioned responses and forged their own path. The Wright Brothers and Henry Ford never finished high school. Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Steve Jobs never finished college. Sergey Brin of Google suspended his PhD studies at Stanford. Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard, traveled to California, and never returned to finish his education. All of these world-changers dropped out of school because they no longer needed to look for a job. They had an idea and the courage to act on that idea. They started businesses and created jobs for others. Today, entrepreneurship is exploding all over the world. More important, the most successful entrepreneurs understand that we are in the information age. They have the vision to see the changes happening that most do not.

— Robert Kiyosaki; Rich Dad's Conspiracy of The Rich

I have a lot of classmates who were much smarter than me, but I make more money than they do. One reason is because I am an entrepreneur and they became employees working for big companies. Another reason is because they went to work for the wrong industry. They went to work for dying industries.

— Donald Trump; quoted by Robert Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurial freedom in general is a prerequesite for capitalistic success. It is entrepreneurs who take risks, invest their money, start up new businesses, create new products, and employ most of the workforce in the United States. Entrepreneurs have created whole new industries by filling market niches that were ignored by other businesses. They have created competition for older, more established businesses, which is always good for the consumer. Entrepreneurs are also the main source of experimentation in the business world, for in trying to find profit opportunities that others have missed they are constantly experimenting with newer products. These products sometimes become revolutionary, as in the case of personal computers, the automobile, and thousands of other products and services.

— Thomas DiLorenzo; How Capitalism Saved America

The important feature of entrepreneurship is not so much the ability to break away from routine as the ability to perceive new opportunities which others have not yet noticed. Entrepreneurship... is not so much the introduction of new products or of new techniques of production as the ability to see where new methods of production have, unknown to others, become feasible.

— Thomas DiLorenzo; How Capitalism Saved America