Leadership is about people. Know yourself and know your people. If you are a good motivator and a good negotiator, you are halfway there. Imagine if Richard Branson or Henry Ford or Steve Jobs said they will not employ people!
The most successful industrialists and entrepreneurs of our age all employ people. By putting the right systems in place and appointing the right people, they managed to grow their businesses to multi million Dollar enterprises.
Buying a franchise is not entrepreneurship - you still work for the MAN. An entrepreneur is enterprising (entrepre-)and is a a doer (-neur). Someone who takes risks and responsibility for the outcomes. One definition I've seen describes an entrepreneur as an intermediary between capital and labour. (Not so sure about that one as many entrepreneurs start without capital).
If you can make money on your own by not employing people, good for you. But you may restrict yourself to what you have now and a business that does not grow, eventually dies. By duplicating your business you can multiply your income and also meet your social responsibility.
Remember, the more people that are unemployed, the more tax you will have to pay to sustain the unemployed as well as the infrastructure required to run your town and country. You will also have to provide more security to protect what is yours.
Conversely, provide jobs and the tax base widens. More workers = more buyers, so business grows. That is why China and India are booming. The workers are also buying. Jobs give people self respect and keep them occupied and off the streets.
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