Entrepreneurial character Having left a high salary and a set schedule with ample leisure time to write a business plan, Polaroid founder Edward Land once described entrepreneurs as people willing to put all their eggs in one basket, gamblers who chose either to hit a homerun or strike out. It's a characteristic that makes them quite unlike prudent professional managers, who stress spreading risk.
放棄高薪和固定的休閒生活，寫一份 BP（創業計畫書），美商「拍立得」的創辦人藍德曾經這麼形容創業家的特質：他們對認為該做的事往往孤注一擲，要嘛全壘打，要嘛被三振，而非像保守謹慎的專業經理人那樣強調分散風險。