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entrepreneurIn business, a person who successfully manages and develops an enterprise through personal skill and initiative. Examples include US industrialist John D Rockefeller, US manufacturer Henry Ford, English businesswoman Anita Roddick, and English businessman Richard Branson. An entrepreneur is generally willing to take risks in pursuit of profit. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These include the need to cultivate workplace democracy, stress on "people conservation" and the practice of community entrepreneurism. Such ecological entrepreneurism, experts say, usually involves a blend of altruism: a love of God's creation, and, more recently, market-driven rewards for protecting or enhancing natural assets rather than depleting them. The Anglosphere nations have navigated this tightrope with a combination of maintaining the high-technology pioneer slot, aggressively combining offshore, low-cost labor with their managerial and financial talents (a strategy followed by Japan as well), and growing their domestic services sector, primarily by entrepreneurism. |
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