Dec 16, 2008

What Makes a Good Entrepreneur?

It is a good question and probably can give you a better idea on what qualities you may want to develop within yourself as you develop your own business. Any person can start a business but there are certain qualities we can see within people who make their businesses successful. This post is going to look at a couple of these qualities in detail along with an interesting argument about entrepreneurs.

One of the most important characteristics is the inner drive to be successful. Whenever you are looking at start a business, you have push yourself. There will be struggles and your inner drive will push you through these times so that you don’t give up. The second characteristic I want to talk about is openness to change. Whenever you are becoming successful in business, you need to develop a certain skill set. If you are open to change and developing your skills, you will give yourself a better chance at succeeding. You will find where you are strong and weak and developing those weak skills can make you a better person and entrepreneur? Here is a good article which will look at more of these qualities that are found in entrepreneurs: http://www.woopidoo.com/articles/geimure/entrepreneur-article.htm.

In this article, the author argues that entrepreneurs are born and not made: http://www.billda.com/what-makes-a-successful-entrepreneur. It is an interesting argument but the end point that is to be stressed here is that you can make yourself into anything you want to. If you take the time to develop certain qualities as shown in the previous article, you have as much chance to succeed as anyone.

A home based business reduces the risk that you will have to incur when starting a business. You can keep your day job while working to build your home based business. The second article is meant to get you thinking. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do but it is interesting to think that some characteristics we are born with. You have some of all of these characteristics and it is your ability to change and develop. That was one of the qualities talked about in the first half of the blog post.

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