So probably I was always an entrepreneur and never thought about it. It wasn't being the entrepreneur. It wasn't running the business. It was the drive for doing what you wanted to do under your own terms. And that burning desire puts you in a situation where you can't fail.
Corporate climbers come to entrepreneurship by a different route.
For L. Elaine Green, who had risen successfully in her organization over a fifteen year period, the move to consider entrepreneurship was forced by radical changes in her life. There was a corporate restructuring. Because she had outstanding performance reviews and prestigious national awards, in spite of the organizational shakeups she was told she could stay on. Then opportunity knocked. She had done a video feature on Arabian horses and later had been asked to do a very large horse show in Arizona.