Entrepreneur

"The entrepreneur who starts his own business generally does so because he is a difficult employee. He does not take kindly to suggestions or orders from other people and aspires most of all to run his own shop. His idiosyncrasies do not hurt anybody so long as the business is small, but once the business gets larger, requiring the support and active cooperation of more people, he is at risk if he does not change his approach. It has been correctly stated that the biggest burden a growing company faces is having a full-blooded entrepreneur as its owner."

Derek du Toit, all around awesome human, vintage car restorer and enthusiast, engineer, entrepreneur, businessman, lecturer at Harvard Business School, much missed husband and wonderful father, as quoted in The Harvard Business Review, The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, 1985 November-December. In the same vein, Derek communicated that "The best thing any entrereneur can do for his companies is to find good management for them - and get out of their way" to Meshed Gears (from Meshed's memory). Meshed says that while Derek didn't always manage to accomplish this himself, and never completely, he always tried to live up to it and kicked himself for failing at it. After I was told about him, I googled for him and found this gem. Unfortunately, he lived in pre-web times and there doesn't appear to be any on-line memorial to him.