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A couple of years ago while traveling in scenic Austria, I got down from the car and sat by the side of a mountain besides a flowing brook. It was no restful and peaceful and I was nearly lulled to sleep by the sound of the water, but knowing it would be an experience I would always cherish, I forced myself awake and lowered my feet into the passing stream.
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Have been an entrepreneur most of my life, yes, even now as a newspaper columnist and writer I’m one, because what I write has to be sellable, by being readable for my readers. But what is the power this wonderful adrenalin seeking addiction of entrepreneurship have over us?
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“Your husband,” I told the pretty lady standing at the entrance of the park where I walk everyday, “is such a polite man!”
“Why what does he do?” asked the lady.
“He wishes everybody during his morning walk,” said the chairman of the committee which maintains the park.
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Something I see so often in America and Europe as I travel through a city in the mornings is the owner of a business establishment opening his shop himself, cleaning the porch and dusting his furniture. There is a sense of pride as he carefully wipes the door handles, makes the brass shine, cleans the glass and polishes the doors.
Here in our country, we have a peon to open the shop, another sweeper to clean the front and other employees to do all the other work we don’t want to do.
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As my plane took off last week, from the city I’d done my school and college, I looked out and thought of the last few days, when not a moment went by when old friends were not around. There were lunches, dinners, speaking and singing!