Bangalore: “Gates is the most ruthless capitalist, and then he wakes up one morning and he says, 'enough.' And he steps down, he takes his money, he takes it off the table” – This was one among the sharpest statements made by Malcolm Gladwell at the Toronto Public Library’s Appel Salon as reported by BI.

Malcolm Gladwell is a Canadian journalist, bestselling author and a powerful speaker. At this gathering he spoke shared some interesting insights about entrepreneurship and the current entrepreneur culture. He said that people today venerate entrepreneurs in our culture and these men are unnecessarily hyped and promoted. He thinks that these entrepreneurs are not worthy of such high reverence because all their activities are towards the wholesome development of an enterprise.

"We venerate entrepreneurs in our culture, they are our new prophets. Literally, we worship them. If you read the literature about great entrepreneurs, it is ‘iconography’ or ‘hagiography’ – he said. Malcolm compared Gates and Jobs, and said that entrepreneurs should be respected and acknowledged for their kind services towards humans and not for their exhilarating money making abilities.

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