It’s been said that you need to have lots of passion for entrepreneurship. Recently in the Money section in The Straits Times, I read Michael Ma, the owner of IndoChine restaurants in Singapore, that you have to have passion or else “you might as well retire”.

I think that’s fine and dandy for someone to say that. It gives a lot of hope and forward promise. Unfortunately, that’s not really a solution. Let’s back up a bit and talk a little about passion and where it comes from.