RSSDavid Goldsmith Shares Thoughts on Entrepreneurship
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I don't like the word entrepreneur. The reason I don't like the word entrepreneur is it's become a stigma for people who are risk takers. And people who start their business, and they are not exactly sure, or they are extremely successful. The issue with an entrepreneur is for me, I am not a gambler. I have never bought a lottery ticket. I don't play cards. I don't gamble. So when I make a decision, it may seem like it's impetuous. Oh, that's - he decided to do that. No. I probably thought about that solution, that problem, that challenge for six months. And everything came together, and now I have made that decision. So to me, the word entrepreneur is a negative version of what we really do. And if you were traveling from Europe to the United States 100 years ago, were you called an entrepreneur of you set up a business? You were called a businessman. So this word entrepreneur puts a new framework about something that doesn't need it.
