Are you an entrepreneur?

Let’s define entrepreneurs: Economists have never had a consistent definition of “entrepreneur” or “entrepreneurship.” Though the concept of an entrepreneur has existed and was known for centuries, the classical and neoclassical economists interestingly left entrepreneurs out of their formal models of the economy: They assumed that perfect information would be known to fully rational actors, leaving no room for risk-taking or discovery. It wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that economists seriously attempted to incorporate entrepreneurship into their models.

Three thinkers were central to the inclusion of entrepreneurs in later iterations of economics: Joseph Schumpeter, Frank Knight, and Israel Kirzner. Schumpeter suggested that entrepreneurs—not just companies—were responsible for the creation of new things. Kirzner thought of entrepreneurship as a process that led to the discovery.

If you are a person who has purpose and strives to make them come true then you are an Entrepreneur.