Entrepreneur On A Bicycle?

John Gokongwei Jr Was Having Twice The Fun

Watermarking your book with young John Gokongwei Jr riding his bicycle: Are you saying this is the boy image of entrepreneurship? The boy didn’t even know the word existed. He had to buy & sell for his family to survive. Then, at 15 years of age, he started taking risks. That was when within the teenager, entrepreneurship was born. The bicycle was a ride, not a risk.

There is that risk of writing in hindsight on someone who has been hugely successful in business: You attribute his present success to his knowledge in the past, what he has learned in the course of time to what he was going to learn yet. You gloss over his learning process. He was born a genius; Click here to read the full essay

~ by frankahilario on 2007 October 31.