The objective here is to extend work that relates systems of belief to economic activity. This is done by assessing the response of a sample of individuals who have started their own businesses (called “entrepreneurs” in this study) with a contrast sample of non-entrepreneurs deliberately chosen to differ (called “career professionals” in this study) to a series of questions designed to operationalize underlying cultural values. The concept of culture as used in this study is based on early work by Kluckhohn and Strodbeck, which posits that human problems and their solutions are limited in number. Group cultures in this approach reflect the dominant responses to these problems and solutions. Geert Hofstede expanded upon this basic idea in a landmark 1980 study. Hofstede found statistical evidence for four underlying dimensions of culture, together with “consequences” that reflect a given society's culture in the institutions and behaviors it maintains. Hofstede's dimensions are: Power distance Management of inequality between people Individualism Relationship between individuals and collectives Uncertainty avoidance Stance toward the future Masculinity Allocation of roles between the sexes Just as Hofstede's work on culture alludes to certain economic consequences as a result of the institutionalization of beliefs, research on entrepreneurship suggests a connection between entrepreneurial activity and underlying values. This literature reflects the following array of entrepreneurial beliefs: Power distance Entrenpreneurs will exhibit higher “power distance” scores than career professionals, reflecting a tolerance for inequality. Individualism Entrepreneurs will favor individual rather than collective action. Uncertainty avoidance Entrepreneurs will be prepared to take risks and will value their personal time. Masculinity Entrepreneurs will tend to have a highly “masculine” orientation, will live to work, and treasure things and money. From this array of likely entrepreneurial beliefs, a set of hypotheses was derived that posits high power distance, high individualism, low uncertainty avoidance, and high masculinity orientations for entrepreneurs, no matter what the orientation of the base culture. These hypotheses were tested by performing a discriminant analysis on responses from 1,217 entrepreneurs and 1,206 non-entrepreneurs in eight countries. A stepwise discriminant analysis reduced the initial set of 83 variables to a more parsimonious 25. The SAS “DISCRIM” procedure yielded correct classifications for 73.96% of the entrepreneurs and 67.68% of the non entrepreneurs, suggesting consistent differences in response for the two groups, in comparing responses to individual questions, the findings reported here suggest support for all of the initial hypotheses. The initial study suggests the following directions for future research. First, the key finding that entrepreneurs share a common set of values should be tested and evaluated against a crosscultural sample. Second, attention should be given to the time sequence in which such values are generated before making causal inferences. In other words, it would be necessary to know whether people become entrepreneurs because they have a given set of beliefs, or because the experience of business start-up affects their system of values. A question that this study does not address is whether or not there are distinctions between the founders of new businesses and successful managers of existing businesses. Further work that addresses this question would shed additional light into the interrelations between social structure, wealth creation, and cultural beliefs.