Thomas J. Watson as always comes up with a great one liner. So what does he mean?

Its obvious that you need to be passionate about what you do to be successful in your endeavors, but it appears he is also talking about the famous Shakespearean “nature” vs “nurture” dogma here also. Are successful entrepreneurs born and not made? In that case, a lot of B-School education would fall flat on its face. Is this quote indicating that formal training provides one only a platform to move on in business?

Another great quote flashes to the mind: “Great leaders are born and not made”.

Any suggestions on these viewpoints on success of entrepreneurs and leadership?

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Arpan Kar (PhD) is a business management researcher from XLRI School of Business and Human Resources. He specializes in e-business, technology management, marketing management and supply chain management. He has multiple international publications to his name and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, Association of Information Systems (USA) and the Association for Computing Machinery (USA). He is the Editor of Business Fundas and also writes for Technorati & eZine Articles.