Some entrepreneurs are more commendable than others.Some start from a great advantage having inherited their base empires from their forefathers and then of course built on them -and then some.Those who fall into this category would include Donald Trump whose father had acquired large property business uoon which Donald was able to build. Likewise Rupert Murdoch whose father had built up extensively in publishing.Ditto Stelios whose father was a shipping magnate.Vast wealth to draw upon.
None of this is to detract from the entrepreneurial flair of the above,just to acknowledge that they did not start from the bottom.Branson too had a priviledged background,went to public school but like so many entrepreneurs was a 'highschool dropout' as the yanks put it.However he did not inherit any wealth to speak of and as such would not fall into the abovementioned category altogether.
Those who literally came from nothing would include Allan Sugar barrow boy extraordianaire and and the chap who started Tescos, Cohen I think his name.Of course what Tesco has become which is nothing short of stupendous in retail terms is down to other players who have subsequently built on that original idea. I am not sure of the antecedents of Green the BHS chap or Berlusconi, Bill Gates(another highschool drop-out or Warren Buffet so if anyone can fill in on those four feel free.
Are entrepreneurs born or made? Well. I don't believe anyone is born anything other than tabula rosa.Environment is all.Most entrepreneurs seem to start very young indeed.Some even in childhood. There are no schools to teach this although some stupid politicians think there should be.
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(I should add that although schools cannot teach entreprenurism they can certainly crush the entrepreneurial spirit,strangle it at birth.All government schools do this albeit covertly by fostering a statist ethos.Teachers after all have been nurtured in government environment and have only a tenuous grip on reality and the real world and are hardly good role models for the young, and, invariably of a statist mindset, they are thus inclined to inculcate statist values in their hapless charges.)
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