Entrepreneurs Were More Likely To Cause Trouble As Teens, Study Says
Bill Gates, 1977 The Microsoft co-founder was arrested in 1977 for a traffic violation. via mugshots.org "Disrupting" norms is profitable when you're a 35-year-old tech maven. When you're 16, it just makes you a delinquent. In many respects, we view entrepreneurs as successful, self-made men and women. We value their innovation and charitable endeavors. Yet we also associate plenty of negative characteristics with entrepreneurs, stereotyping them as selfish and out to make a profit at whatever cost. Those who later founded their own companies were more likely as teenagers to have cheated and shoplifted.The profiteering side of entrepreneurship has led some to wonder if there isn't a connection between anti-social behavior and becoming an entrepreneur. A 2009 study from researchers at Arizona State University and the National University of Singapore found a relationship between breaking moderate rules as an adolescent and later entrepreneurship, based on the retrospective self-reports of 165...