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You’re looking at it the wrong way I think. It’s not that engineers go through engineering to be businessmen, it’s the notion that anyone who can do engineering is smart enough, intuitive enough, and resourceful enough to be successful in business. Yes you can call them engineers, entrepreneurs, whatever, but the fact is that they’re just smart people, and smart people thrive in more than one field. Everything has a learning curve, what people are saying is that you have to be intelligent to succeed in engineering, and if you are intelligent than it must mean you have the ability to learn well, which is key in business.</p>