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The Owner’s Journey

Entrepreneurship in the United States continues to be a major path to wealth creation for individuals and their families.

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December 9, 2021
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Family Enterprise Insights
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Ownership, Practitioner Perspectives

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Few entrepreneurs start companies with the sole goal of getting rich. Often, they launch companies to fix a problem, to create something new, to act upon an insight that only they see, or even simply to make the world a better place. In many ways, entrepreneurs are like artists, bringing huge passion to what they are doing and creating. Making money may be important to them, but it tends to be only one of many motivating factors. Often, it is far down the list.

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