I guess I learnt this word during my first year in college. I used to wonder why its pronunciation does not start like “Ent…” in entertainment and starts with “Hon…” in honor.
Now I feel that probably this word has an honor in it and that’s why pronounced that way. It also meant only people achieving high profits year after year on their own and getting listed in the top. It’s not so right! Yeah, whomever stands up on their own, be it they achieve profits or not, but have the guts to run a business is an entrepreneur.
I live in the city of money; a city which is a mini nation by itself; a city which sleeps late and wakes up early than the other regions in the nation; a city which shares a major portion of numbers inflated in the nation; a city which makes the business running throughout the nation. So, is each and every individual in this city an entrepreneur keeping the numbers adding up? Yeah if so, what kind of entrepreneurs are they?
It’s the busy and the main railway station in the city. Trains come and go precisely every 5 mins and believe me, every train is overcrowded. You will loose your breath to get in and out. If you think that you are well dressed up with well steamed fine shirts and trousers and travel by a train, you might find them false when you are out from the train. More than that, the well polished, shining shoes of yours goes for a toss. It will look worse than the word muddy would describe. You will feel to howl there.
But! Coming down the station, there sits a man with a small box with a shoe cleaner and a brush. Not that much in quality, but a decent one. Now, he cleans up your shoes and polishes too making them look pretty for the next 2 days though you might not touch it. He does it for a person every minute. So approximately let’s take it as a minimum of 50 per day. He charges 5 rupee per person. I said you…this is a rich city! Now, you do the calculations on the capital, his earnings, and profit per day and do remember 50 is the minimum number he services in a day.
He owns the work he does, the money earned and if he is not there for a day, there are people who will be searching for his service. Isn’t he an entrepreneur with an honor at his level!?
Now I feel that probably this word has an honor in it and that’s why pronounced that way. It also meant only people achieving high profits year after year on their own and getting listed in the top. It’s not so right! Yeah, whomever stands up on their own, be it they achieve profits or not, but have the guts to run a business is an entrepreneur.
I live in the city of money; a city which is a mini nation by itself; a city which sleeps late and wakes up early than the other regions in the nation; a city which shares a major portion of numbers inflated in the nation; a city which makes the business running throughout the nation. So, is each and every individual in this city an entrepreneur keeping the numbers adding up? Yeah if so, what kind of entrepreneurs are they?
It’s the busy and the main railway station in the city. Trains come and go precisely every 5 mins and believe me, every train is overcrowded. You will loose your breath to get in and out. If you think that you are well dressed up with well steamed fine shirts and trousers and travel by a train, you might find them false when you are out from the train. More than that, the well polished, shining shoes of yours goes for a toss. It will look worse than the word muddy would describe. You will feel to howl there.
But! Coming down the station, there sits a man with a small box with a shoe cleaner and a brush. Not that much in quality, but a decent one. Now, he cleans up your shoes and polishes too making them look pretty for the next 2 days though you might not touch it. He does it for a person every minute. So approximately let’s take it as a minimum of 50 per day. He charges 5 rupee per person. I said you…this is a rich city! Now, you do the calculations on the capital, his earnings, and profit per day and do remember 50 is the minimum number he services in a day.
He owns the work he does, the money earned and if he is not there for a day, there are people who will be searching for his service. Isn’t he an entrepreneur with an honor at his level!?
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