Dartmouth President James Wright
Excerpt from opening remarks at GV2004

"I think of [entrepreneurship] principally as an intellectual quality and one that is not widely shared: the capacity to see opportunity, to imagine what might be. And this strength needs to be nourished, for in this republic it is essential to the vitality, the energy, of public life as well as private life, of for-profit activities and not-for-profit activities. When I think of those qualities that mark Dartmouth students, I think of creativity and independence, the capacity to follow different paths, to take risks, to lead - and a capacity to see that which might be. Dreamers and idealists, perhaps, but dreamers and idealists with the will and the skill to realize dreams and to make ideals tangible. That is entrepreneurship. And it is critical for Dartmouth to encourage this quality - not as a business skill but as an activity related to our educational purpose."