THE ART OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ENTREPRENEURSHIPEntrepreneurship is the art or science of innovation and risk – taking for profit in

business.

Entrepreneurship is the quality of being an entrepreneur.

- Oxford Dictionary definition

ENTREPRENEURAn entrepreneur is somebody who initiates or

finances new commercial enterprises and assumes

much of the associated risk.

- Oxford Dictionary definition

EXAMPLES

BILL GATES

NET WORTH – $72.7bn

CEO of the Year & 2012 Fourth Most Powerful Person.

2005 Person of the year by Time Magazine.

20th Distinguished fellow of the Computer Society.

Top 10 Most influential Persons in Media by The Guardians.

STEVE JOBS

NET WORTH – $8.3bn

Greatest Entrepreneur of our time.

CEO of the decade in 2009..

Most Powerful person in Business in 2007; 17th Most Powerful person in the world in 2010;

Inducted into the California Hall of Fame by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007; National Medal of Technology by the President in 1985;

2nd Greatest innovator of all time after Thomas Edison.

NET WORTH – $13.3bn (making him the 66th Billionaire in the world.

Computer Programmer & Entrepreneur

Became a Billionaire at Age 24 as a result of FACEBOOK

Top 100 Wealthiest & Most influential in the world.

MARK ZUCKERBE

RG

NET WORTH – $14.5 bn US Dollars

Entrepreneur of the year at the age of 24 from Inc. Magazine.

Youngest CEO to have his company ranked in Fortune Magazine’s list of the top 500 corporations.

CEO of the year from Financial World, Industry Week and Chief Executive Magazine.

MICHEAL DELL

NET WORTH – $25bn.Richest Black man. Richest man in Africa and 23rd Richest man in the World.

Owns Dangote Group - A Multi-Trillion naira conglomerate in several countries.

He was honoured as the Leading Provider of Employment in the Nigerian Construction Industry.

He was awarded The Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) by President Goodluck Jonathan.

ALIKO DANGOTE

They each invent a means to affect the world in their

individual ways.

They are all Philanthropists.

They all invest wisely with their wealth.

They are all apparent Multi – Millionaires and

Billionaires.

WHAT THEY ALL HAVE IN COMMON

SO HOW ABOUT

YOU?

What did they do?

What did they get involved in?

How did they get involved in such?

What were their sacrifices?

How did they find it in themselves to make such sacrifices?

Who did they look up to after God?

Is one of their biggest secrets really reading books?

If it is, what kind of books do they read?

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF

10. Just keep trying.

11. Try to determine what is working.

12. Try to determine what is not working.

13. Try to find someone who’s done it.

14. Try and ask for help.

15. Try it again tomorrow.

16. Try it a little differently.

17. Try it once more.

18. Try again.

19. Try.

THE TOP TEN STEPS TO SUCCESS

THANK YOU AND HAVE A BLESSED WEEK AHEAD

ADABA ISAAC

THE ART OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP