Business as Art: Born to be an Entrepreneur

Today’s Sunday Saying is from Any Warhol:

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all.

There is only so much someone can teach you about small business. You can learn about how to market, how to keep your business books, how to collect money, but there is something intangible that you can’t learn from someone else.  It must be part of you.  Some people would call it “The Art of Business.”  Others believe that great business people are born, not made.

In fact, there is book with that title by James L. Fisher and James V. Koch, called Born Not Made and subtitled “The Entrepreneurial Personality.”  The authors studied entrepreneurs and came to the conclusion that “some individuals are simply more naturally fitted become entrepreneurs….”

If entrepreneurs are born, not made, then Warhol is right that there is an art to business.  What do you think?

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