Is it dangerous to say that entrepreneurs are heroes?

Back in the early 1990s, I wrote a paper called "The Creative-Destroyers: Are Entrepreneurs Mythological Heroes?"  

A reviewer at a journal said "The conclusion that entrepreneurs are heroes seems to be very dangerous!" That was in 1993.

There is a picture of this review below. After that is a link to where I posted this paper here on my blog. Then there are also links to the many people have said that entrepreneurs are heroes.

 

"The Creative-Destroyers: Are Entrepreneurs Mythological Heroes?" (Part 1). I posted it in several parts and all of the parts are linked at Part 1. For a short, one page version see An Essay In Honor Of "Small Business Saturday" And Entrepreneurs Everywhere.

Many people over the years have said that entrepreneurs are heroes.

Are we confounding heroism and individualism? Entrepreneurs may not be lone rangers, but they are heroic nonetheless by Jeffery S. McMullen in 2017.

See The Entrepreneur on the Heroic Journey by Dwight R. Lee & Candace Allen in 1997.

See Kirzner’s Entrepreneur and the Hero’s Journey by Amir Iraji in 2025.

See Towards a mythic process philosophy of entrepreneurship by Lauri J. Laine & Ewald Kibler. 

See  Who Says Entrepreneurs Are Heroes? (Remarks prepared for the first HERO'S JOURNEY ENTREPRENEURSHIP FESTIVAL, March 31st, 2007 at Pepperdine University). You can also read it here. This has even more people who have said it.

See Does It Matter If We Call Entrepreneurs Heroes? This also has more people who have said it.