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Readers Respond: What Are the Most Important Characteristics of an Entrepreneur?

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An Entrepreneur's Main Characteristic

As an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to deal with failure.
—Guest PMS

Have faith & confidence in oneself

It's you and your decision to start a business for an independent life. So in each and every situation keep yourself highly confident to at last achieve the goal.
—Guest Rajiv Dahiya

GRACE+GUTS+GUMPTION+GRIT

A good entrepreneur must have the four Gs identified above to excel in the world of business.
—Guest sheyihlohpoh_ng

An Entrepreneur Needs to Stick to It

Never give up....I have been working on a project for three years and I think it is coming to the end. I mean I think it is going to be ready to go to market. So that's why I say never give up and pray.
—Guest Lisa

Top 3 Entrepreneur Characteristics

1- An entrepreneur has to know about the business he wants to get involved in. 2- An entrepreneur has to be open to new ideas. 3- An entrepreneur has to be a risk taker.
—Guest RAJ KAMAL GAUTAM

Entrepreneurs Need Personality

Personalizing a truly loved business could help in breaking the ice when your potential clients and your service/product meet for the first time.
—Guest Nasser Aljundi

You Need Critical Business Knowledge

An entrepreneur must have clear knowledge of the current business trends that directly affect the business intended to be set up. For example, he'd have to know about the current economic crisis, inflation levels etc.
—Guest daniel

Work Hard

Being a people person and making contacts is important. You should also say what you are going to do and then do what you say and give a bit more than what is expected.
—Guest Dave

creativity

An entreprenuer should be creative his or her mind should be a think tank full of ideas... and these ideas should be actionable.
—Guest Grace

Perseverance

He/She has perseverance, which is especially important if your business keeps falling. But if the entrepreneur really believes in what he is doing, perseverance will take him to success.
—Guest Mary

Resourceful

In order to survive and thrive in business you have to be resourceful in problem solving, reaching out to those that can help. A business community is like one big family where the people share ideas, information and resources. You can't make it by yourself!
—Guest Ranka Burzan

positive attitude

A positive mental attitude is crucial to deal with some of the ups and downs in business life. When you start out your day with a smile on your face and a positive outlook on life wonderful things can happen. There really is a bright side to everything you encounter in a day of business. Sometimes you may need to look a little harder.
—Guest davescarpetcleaning

Follow Through

I believe an Entrepreneur must have follow through. It's not enough to have great ideas. You have to be able to map a plan and follow that map to its completion. You have to be able to stick to your plan. I think an entrepreneur probably gets ideas other for other opportunities but he/she must stay focused with the plan, blocking out any creative ideas not helpful to the current plan.
—Guest susan

Training, Dedication and being Patient

Have a knowledge of what business he/she is taking, experience, risk taker, dedicated to know how to improve their product and how to improve, and more gain...
—Guest timcr2003@yahoo.com

Passion & Dedication

I would also say a passion and dedication beyond the norm - very much needed to get a visionary idea off the ground.
—Guest Anna

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