The Five Realities of the Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs are made, not born. There is no corner on creativity. There is simply the desire to express it. Once that desire appears, you can be assured that you have awakened the entrepreneur within. The very presence of that desire means that the entrepreneur is up and dreaming.

Extracted from Awakening the entrepreneur within: How ordinary people can create extraordinary companies,by Michael E. Gerber

This is a very important book - a must read! 

Here are the author's five realities of the entrepreneur:

REALITY 1: An entrepreneur is an inventor, although few inventors are entrepreneurs.

REALITY 2: Entrepreneurs do not buy business opportunities; they create them.

REALITY 3: Invention is contagious.

REALITY 4: To an entrepreneur, the success of the invention - the business - is measured by growth.

REALITY 5: Everyone possess the ability to be an entrepreneur - to invent, to conceive of a great idea for a new business, and to create an original business based upon a simple but explosive idea.