Carlos
Slim, born in Mexico City, Mexico, is the forth-richest man in the world.
He owns stock in more than 200 companies. His wealth comes mainly from Telmex
that is the biggest telecommunication company in Mexico. He said once “If you’re in business, you need to understand
the environment. You need to have a vision of the future, and you need to know
the past.” This has to be the principal of any business plan.
Before we start dealing with our own business, we need to
analyze everything about it first. We need to research what have been happening
in the area we are planning to have a new beginning. If we know the past, we
can plan a realistic future. Being an employee is different than being an
entrepreneur. Employees are not the final decision makers. They are managing
another’s person asset. As an entrepreneur every decision I make is going to
affect me directly.
Carl
Schramm is the former president of the Kauffman
Foundation. He is a clear example of leadership in the industry. He knows
well what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how to get there. He mentioned on
a Wall Street Journal Interview.
“I think we were in full tide of
entrepreneurial capitalism and now there's an introspection, where the
vocabulary is all about regulation and the importance of the government to
restart the economy," he says. While Mr. Schramm believes that the
government has a role to play, he argues, "Historically through the last
seven recessions it's been entrepreneurs who essentially restarted the economy.”
The future of any country is not is the hands of the
government. It is in the hands of the entrepreneurs who end up changing the
financial situation of the country. We have a huge power in our hands if we
know how to use it. We need to be able to visualize the future that our company
is going to bring to the world and our life.
