Employees do the work they are given to keep the company moving forward. Owners take responsibility for creating something new and pushing the company forward without being managed into it.
Employees look forward to vacations and forgetting about the projects they are working on. Owners look forward to getting back to the office to work on all of the ideas that they came up with on vacation.
Employees take pride in a job well done. Owners forget about their last success and look to the next one.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with being an employee versus being an owner. There are far more great employees in this world than there are even good owners. Success for a business requires both. For any given medium-term period it is possible to be successful only with A+ employees. But long-term success must have owners.