“The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.”

— Jean-Baptiste Say, a French economist who first coined the word entrepreneur in about 1800

What made this quote instantly likable to me when I first heard it was its powerful simplicity.

It breaks down the essence of entrepreneurship, a hard-to-define and even enigmatic calling, into basic parts.

Today I found a new appreciation for Jean-Baptiste Say’s words by, similarly, distilling them— entrepreneurs make things better.