Entrepreneur

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Entrepreneur is a word for an innovative individual who starts a business or creates a product, marketing scheme, etc.

Benjamin Franklin was a successful entrepreneur, diplomat, writer, policy maker, polymath and one of our founding fathers. [1]

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford.

The word is from the French: "entrepedre" to underatake, and originally applied to the director of a musical institution before the meaning broadened to its modern application. Joseph Schumpeter, in his classic work Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, to explain the function of the entrepreneur sometimes used his native German term, undertaker or undertaker of an enterprise, which didn't translated well into English. President George W. Bush once famously remarked: "The trouble with the French is they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'"

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