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You are not here merely to make a living: You are here to enable the world to live amply, with greater vision and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. – Woodrow Wilson

And entrepreneurs have always done just that – with a unique “spirit of hope and achievement.” More and more people are turning toward entrepreneurship now that the economy’s tanked in their own sectors. Although many are in more of a forced entrepreneurship than the labor of love that’s often the entrepreneurial catalyst, there are important payoffs.

“If there is a silver lining, the large-scale downsizing from major companies will release a lot of new entrepreneurial talent and ideas — scientists, engineers, business folks now looking to do other things,” said Mark V. Cannice, executive director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of San Francisco, to the New York Times. “It’s a Darwinian unleashing of talent into the entrepreneurial ecosystem.”

I agree wholeheartedly that the entrepreneurial flow of time, talents and treasures is an important current in an evolutionary tide.

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