>Most businesses fail. Yet, we still do our best to encourage the formation of new ventures. We hail the small businessman as a hero. We don't lament him as a frivolous dreamer, even though purely based on the odds, that's what anyone who starts a business really is.

This is a blatant double-standard. Non-entrepreneurs who take the same level of risk that is outright common in entrepreneurial ventures are lamented as frivolous dreamers.