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entrepreneur

In 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.



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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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