Len Schlesinger, the president of Babson College and author of Action Trumps Everything, talked at the Global Leadership Summit about many of the wrong assumptions about entrepreneurs...

• Most entrepreneurs are actually not excited about risk. The good ones know how to avoid risk.
• Most entrepreneurs don't have a sharply defined vision.
• Most entrepreneurs distrust predictions about the future.
• Most entrepreneurs don't have a big idea that no one else has. They just see something being done and figure out a better way to do it.
• Most entrepreneurs aren't more self-confident, egotistical or decisive than anyone else.
• Tom Peters says that entrepreneurship is a learned skill, and anyone can learn it.
• When you don't know the future,  you act your way into the future.
• How do you start something? You start with things you care about.
• Stop worrying about what you want to do, and just worry about what you want to do next.
• Failure doesn't mean 'game over.' It means try again with your new experience.
• When you fail--quite likely you just learned something that no one else knows.
• Don't obsess over what you think you need, and start with what you have.