Only dreamers should be entrepreneurs

As the world foremost financially well-off individuals, sit and discuss the fate of the world, risk, growth potential and development. I am can’t help to sit and wonder if I am wrong/immoral to want to one day sit at the tables at Davos.

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If entrepreneurs are the rock stars of the business world, then some entrepreneurs must be rock gods – names present at Davos that come to mind are Bill Gates, Enrique Razon, Aliko Dangote and many more.
I am sure all these gents ever set out to do was to have fun, do what they like and maybe change the world.

Now rewinding back to some many decades ago, when these men got started – it all started with a dream.
Yes we all dream, we dream big and small dreams, we dream wild and cautious dreams – we all dream. As American author, Kathrine Paterson once observed, “a dream without a plan is just a wish”.
It has been my experience that only well defined, crystallised plans are the ones with a higher propensity to succeed – and in here lays the challenge.

We all have wishes to better our lives, plans to prosper, plans to develop, as is written in the Good Book: “I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future..” – Jeremiah 29 vs 11 NIV. Taking the time and the effort to making those plans a reality is what separates the dreamers from the wishers.


Only dreamers can be entrepreneurs – those people who are willing and able to endure the hardships coupled with starting and growing a business or organisation. It is not easy – it is brutal and your plan changes constantly.

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