The Cycle of Entrepreneurship

Abstract

They say there are many roads to both success and disaster. This book will chart the course toward success — a route with lots of opportunities for twists, turns and dead ends — trodden by that highly individualistic creature, the entrepreneur. There is something inside the entrepreneur that will not be denied. He or she is driven by the great urgency of a new idea that no one else has yet conceived and by an unquenchable need for self-expression and independence.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

—Alexis de Tocqueville¹