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Acton Media Presents
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The Call of the
Entrepreneur |
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An entrepreneur is the
creative force in economics. |
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The entrepreneur is the person
who comes and looks at a desert, |
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or a jungle, or wilderness
and sees a garden. |
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You know, sees opportunity
to create new value. |
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Hong Kong, China
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New York City
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Evart, Michigan
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What entrepreneur really do
is put what they are at risk |
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where they
could lose it all. |
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And do it over, and
over, and over again. |
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I learn risk without
knowing there is a risk. |
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Taking risks is actually
dashing into a hole. |
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You are just dashing into the future
and hoping that it's gonna be better. |
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You can really think of the first
farmers as the first entrepreneur. |
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Farms, would make cities possible,
and then those cities would make civilizations |
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possible, and then those civilizations would make
things like, world wide commerce and technology, |
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and science, and music,
and philosophy possible. |
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I called the
extension agent. |
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First, you
lose in business. |
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He come here and he looked me
right square in the eye and he says, |
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You're broke.
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Get out.
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And I looked right
back at him, and I says, |
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What do we gotta
do to get this right? |
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You put your
butt in a corner, |
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you'd be surprised
what you can achieve. |
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Without the entrepreneur,
economies are barren, |
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they're dead.
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A zero sum
game is like poker. |
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We all sit down at the table, and
I only win if someone else loses. |
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That's not the
way a market works. |
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That's not the way the wealth
of New York city has been built. |
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All the stuff behind me
was created by energy |
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applied to physical matter
that transformed it. |
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That's the genius
of entrepreneurship. |
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It's the
discovery process. |
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It's the courage
that's involved in it. |
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The investment, the intelligence,
the openness, the other directedness. |
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Sometimes they are the most
common resources that we walk over, |
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that we ignore, that we
even are perhaps, repulsed by, |
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that become the
source of wealth, |
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the source of jobs,
the source of prosperity. |
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I mean, this is an
incredible institution. |