“So you want to be an entrepreneur?” I asked one of my nephews as I was discussing with him his plans.  “ But why are you taking Biology for your college?”

“ Well, “ he said, “ My dad wants me to be a doctor, and besides, if I can’t make it to medical school, then I can always be an entrepreneur.  Dad never did go to business school, but he is doing ok.”

Do you have friends who are doctors, or lawyers who are also in business?  Are you just amused what they believed in?  Of course, they think they cannot be doctors if they don’t go to medical school,  or accountants if they don’t get an accounting course,  but they can always be businessmen!”

Managing a business is just common sense is as common a thinking even among my business friends.  Is management so easy?  Yet , it can’t be.  It is like basketball or golf – the game is easy to learn, yet difficult to master.

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