NORWICH – What’s the economic forecast? Cold with a chance of snow for the foreseeable future, according to Tulsa entrepreneur Clayton Clark.

“We can’t change the weather. What we can do is change our response to it,” Clark told a roomful of local businesses and community leaders on Tuesday during Commerce Chenango’s Annual Economic Forecast Breakfast.

Clark, who owns a host of successful businesses including the Make Your Life Epic Institute, was the keynote speaker at the event, held at the Howard Johnson in Norwich. The self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur” was introduced by NBT Bank President and CEO Martin Dietrich, whose organization sponsored the event in conjunction with The Evening Sun and Norwich-Sidney Pennysaver.

“We basically know we’re going to have snow for the foreseeable future,” said Clark, who was named U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year at age 27.