Becoming an entrepreneur can be liberating. The freedom from pre-set deadlines and goals, the power to transform your vision the way you want to and set your own rules are highly emancipating factors.

Entrepreneurship normally requires individuals to have high levels of motivation when planning and starting a new business. Motivation is often defined as an internal or external desire to achieve a ...

Show me the money? Entrepreneurs don’t always look at financial rewards as the best thing in being their own bosses. In the 1990s, it was Bill Gates. In the 2000s, it was the late Steve Jobs and the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Often, when entrepreneurs make the bold leap from employee of a corporation to leader of their own business, one of the first challenges ...

Over the past 30 years, the meaning of the word entrepreneur has undergone multiple transformations, including a Dark Age (mail-order bride franchise, anyone?) and a renaissance (the Branson-assic ...

The difference between inspiration and motivation is that inspiration gives you the idea and motivation causes you to put the idea into action. In business, inspiration is important in offering new ...

From Andrew Carnegie to Henry Ford to Bill Gates, what is a salesman at heart like? Hard-working, driven, passionate, and above all, someone with an undying love for entrepreneurship. Now, that may ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Even the most grand, world-changing projects require some amount of tedious, get-it-done slogging. Here’s one of our favorites: “Our ...