des many of the elements listed above. The difference among definitions of entrepreneurial skills tends to be one of emphasis more than content and may in fact reflect differences in different fields of work. Jones (1987) has perhaps the simplest definition of an entrepreneur, stating that ôif entrepreneurs are distinguished by anything it is by the simple fact that they act on thoughts most everyone at one time or another has hadö (p. 45). Another way of looking at this, Jones writes, is that ôentrepreneurs know how to run scaredö (p. 45) in that while all humans have ideas that they would like to see enacted, most people do not
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