Does anyone else out there see themselves in any of these mini-bios? For me, this is too timely.
Gems:
Successful entrepreneurs are frequently nonconformists. They swim against the current and are often perceived as difficult by others. Even as young people, many of them had problems bowing and scraping to authority figures.
…Larry Ellison, who founded Oracle…was not willing to learn anything he could not see the point of and would sabotage whatever he did not want to put up with. After he had finished school, his attitude kept getting him into trouble at the companies he worked for. He eventually realized that his only option was to form his own company where he would be in control of how things were done.
…entrepreneurs do not let social norms govern their actions to the same extent as others. The type of entrepreneur described by Schumpeter…“draws other conclusions from the data of the world around him than those drawn by the mass of static economic agents.”
Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are Often Such Difficult People
