To me, entrepreneurship is one of the most wonderful of professions, right up there with being a medical doctor, lawyer, scientist, engineer, statesman, etc...entrepreneurs solve problems and build things. They create and innovate. They improve the standard of living for everyone, and they create jobs and economic growth along with it.
For example, a successful entrepreneur who builds a big company ends up doing the following:
1) Creates a lot of jobs
2) Creates economic growth and contributes to the overall economic growth of their community
3) Creates a lot of new tax revenue for the government (through the job creation and business growth)
4) Provides new products and services for society, which improve the standard of living
5) Allows the owner (s) to become wealthy (nothing bad there), and this thus allows the owner to contribute to things like charities, churches, and so forth
Now YES, I am well aware that plenty of entrepreneurs do not become entrepreneurs with all of the above in mind, who do it mostly for the money. Just the same, there are plenty of people who become medical doctors for the money, lawyers for the money, politicians for power (very few politicians are true statesman in my opinion), but this isn't true for all people in these professions.
In addition to all of the good entrepreneurship and business overall does, because it is about solving problems, building things, and providing products and services that improve the standard of living and quality of life for everyone, it also involves things such as passion, creativity, drive, determination, tenacity, courage, calculated risk-taking, etc...all qualities I admire in a person.
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