Entrepreneurs -- born or made (1) ?

My gut feeling tells me that good entrepreneurs can be made, but Great entrepreneurs are born to be. Using Apple's Steve Jobs as an example - concerned that tuition was draining his parents' life savings and dissatisfied by his required courses, Jobs said ( in his 2005 Stanford commencement address) said he dropped out of college and began taking courses that interested him. He slept on the floor in friends' rooms and returned Coke bottle for the 5-cent deposits to buy food. Every Sunday night, Jobs said he walked seven miles across town to a Hare Krishna Temple to get one good meal a week. "I loved it, Jobs said. "And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on." How many college freshman can do this ?
Karl Eller, one of the best US entrepreneurs, the CEO of The Eller Company, has built several billion-dollar companies in past fifty years. University of Arizona renamed its business school after his name in 1999. In his 2005 book 'Integrity Is All You've Got", he told us that between age 10-13, he got up at 3:30 am every morning to deliver newspaper, and was select as the Miami's youngest paperboy with the largest route. How many 10 year old can get up at 3:30 am every morning ?
Technical training is fundamental, but when and how to use it is something different. It's matter of judgment, attitude, and energy level, that is a hard subject for a university to teach.

How much LOVE will cost you ?

Some professions, normally those not paid well in the earlier stage (such as in art and entertainment industry), need special talent and dedication. In order to make a comfortable living in those professions, you must propel yourself on or near the top of that niche; you must know yourself well to take risks. You can't do the job simply because you want to do it or you do it well; instead, you chose the profession because you MUST do it.
Your passion and your self-confidence will sustain the early-stage suffering. Nothing could be achieved without passion. If you are those kind of person, then not doing the job you love will consume you. Your love will COST you, you will be hunted by your love for life. For the rest of us, the mortals, we often don't know ourselves too well. Our passions are in more or less of fluid state, and our skills are not very unique. We have our jobs as accountants, drivers and lawyers. Yet we do make the world go around. But in the future of more outsourcing and computerization, many of us will have to do what we love and being good at, in order to have competitive niches in the job market .