“The only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.” – Richard Branson
“I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.” – Travis Kalanick
Almost every ophthalmologist is industrious. But very few rise to the level of being industrialists, which is to say, large-scale entrepreneurs enjoying commercial success. “Beyond the dreams of avarice,” as the old man used to say.
Of the 15,000 or so actively working eye surgeons, I would gauge that