Drive your own vision

86-year-old James Sorenson, the largest shareholder in Abbott Laboratories (worth about $4.5 billion) and a junk-food enthusiast, perhaps best captured the fundamental spirit of entrepreneurship. Asked for the hardest lesson he had to learn, he replied: “To spend my energy and resources investing in my own ideas, rather than those of other people. I need to drive my own vision.”

This is exactly how I feel right now.