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On the recordOctober 1, 2013
every one of these industries has a tremendous amount of entrepreneurial risk, and when they take the risk, it pays off for them
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford highlights the entrepreneurial risks taken by various industries.

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