Entrepreneurship as wealth building

Entrepreneurship is the attempt to capture not just the wage for your labor but a share of the value it creates — a rational ambition, though one that most attempts do not reach. The failure rate is high not because the idea of ownership is flawed but because the gap between a good idea and a sustainable business is crossed by execution, timing, and tolerance for sustained uncertainty. Those who build successfully tend to have prepared more than they appear to have.