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Entrepreneurs vs. Managers: What’s the big difference

What’s the difference between an entrepreneur and a manager? It’s never my intention to make this article controversial but I could help express my own view after witnessing a heated debate between my friends and the subject of the argument was “entrepreneurs vs. managers; which is more important to the process of building a business.” Though I am an entrepreneur to the core, it is never my intention to place a kind of supremacy of one over the other; I just want to highlight some fundamental differences between an entrepreneur and a manager and their relevance to the entrepreneurial process.

“When entrepreneurs and investors come together to pool resources, they form a team. When employees and self employed specialists come together to network, they form a union.” – Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes, both of them are mistaken as being the same but they are not. However, both entrepreneurs and managers are needed for the growth of any business. One cannot do without the other. So without much ado, below are 12 differences between entrepreneurs and managers.

Entrepreneurs vs. Managers: What’s the big difference?



















As a final note; the successful entrepreneurs and business leaders of the business world are Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ross Perot, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Larry Ellison and Aliko Dangote; the richest black man in the world. On the other hand, the renowned corporate managers of the business world are Alfred P. Sloan, Jack Welch and Lee Iacocca.
