[augustus]

Well, the one thing that motivates me to come back to entrepreneurship despite some past failures is simply the fact that,

There is a future in working for yourself. If your plan succeeds, you own your destiny and with it comes financial independence.

What is really the future for an employee? If the business goes south, you are laid off. If you work really hard you get promoted and make a little more. Hardly a recipe for financial independence.

Of course that's oversimplification, but the payoff in entrepreneurship is highly gratifying and motivating.