Not Everyone Can Be an Entrepreneur

Tue, Apr 21, 2009

Philosophy

I was speaking to my friend Kim last night.  Kim has three jobs – she works full time at Deloitte, she writes a column for CBS, and she has a very successful blog with three other female writers.  Kim also has an apartment, and a boyfriend.  She seems to have it all.

We were talking about what I was going to do with my life (because duh, I need to decide right now).  I said that I want to be an entrepreneur.  She says “really?”.  Um… yeah, really.

Kim says that my “whole generation wants to be entrepreneurs” and I for the most part agree.  I think the age of the aspiring to work for the man is over.  I said o-v-a.

Kim next says, “it’s impossible.  It’s impossible for everyone to be an entrepreneur.  Not everyone can be a leader”.

Is that true?  Can everyone who wants to be an entrepreneur be one or will it just not work?  I say that everyone can.  Everyone can try all they want.  Whether they succeed or not up to Darwin though.  So, with that being said, I’m forging along on my quest to be an entrepreneur.

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  • FSC
    I think you're both right.

    Anyone (and everyone) can be entrepreneur. The issue is practicality: would a world like that (where everyone is an entrepreneur) work, and would everyone necessarily succeed?

    Your friend is right in that not everyone will make it, and so are you if you're saying that anyone *can* make it.

    Nice blog, by the way.
  • Thanks for the comment Fidel! Hope everything is going well with you. You put it very well: Kim is right in that everyone won't make it, but I'm right in that everyone can make it. Tricky tricky...
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