A bent nail stands in a small piece of wood surrounded by curled shavings in warm workshop light.

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Mason Cooley

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A wry aphorism claiming that starting a business is where difficult, disruptive people end up when nowhere else will have them. It gently mocks entrepreneurship as a haven for misfits, suggesting the trait that makes someone hard to employ gets recast as ambition. The jab is the speaker's cynical view, not a measured verdict.

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