If you want to know what keeps serial entrepreneurs coming back for
more, take a listen to the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr. On his 90th birthday, Holmes said:
"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: 'The work is done.' But just as one says that, the answer comes: 'The race is over, but the work is never done while the power to work remains.' The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function."
Entrepreneurs are a blessed bunch. They have innate ability to recognize opportunities others cannot see, the chutzpah needed to defy convention and the courage to court failure. Once, that is.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Why Serial Entrepreneurs Can't Stop - Forbes.com
Author: Steven Berglas, Ph.D.
