My personal travel schedule has been stretched to its limits, with an average of three countries and five events each week. The stories I am hearing and connections I am seeing within this environment continue to flourish, and this is what energizes me each day. Creating and nurturing these conditions for success?is the subject of the story below?

WEALTH BY CHANCE

Last month I met an enthusiastic graduate from one of the many Entrepreneurship MBA programs currently on offer. As if by way of introduction, he asked Whats your exit strategy??br> What??
Whats your exit strategy? Whats your plan??/p>

I asked him if he could name any famous billionaire who had made all his wealth by setting a plan with an exit strategy, executing the plan, and then exiting. He couldnt. Now Im not saying exit strategies are not useful. The first thing youre told when you get on a plane is where the exits are. But exit strategies are for the passengers, not for the pilots. The last thing you want to hear when you get on a plane is that the pilot will be bailing out at 30,000 ft. The last thing you want to hear if youre investing in Microsoft is that Bill will be bailing out once the stock price hits $40.

Its not a coincidence that all the Worlds wealthiest entrepreneurs continue to work long after they need to. They dont see it as work, so theres nothing to retire from. If retiring means giving up work to do what

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