TOP TEN CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR
Running a one-person business is a creative, flexible and challenging way to become
your own boss and chart your own future. It is about creating a life, as it is about making a living.
It takes courage, determination and foresight to decide to become an entrepreneur.
Is there a way to determine whether you can be a successful entrepreneur, or you are better off
to work for somebody else? There is no formula for success. However, most successful
entrepreneurs share these characteristics. Check if you possess any one of them:
Characterists of successful entrepreneurs.
• Being Observant - Always stay aware of what is going on both in the marketplace
and the world around you.
• Being Emphatic - Having an understanding of what people want and need is
important to an entrepreneur. Think of products that can make an average person's
life easier, or more fun.
• Being Knowledgeable - Developing an understanding of the marketplace and the
competition will go a long way toward success amd save you countless of fruitless
labor. Barbara makes it a point to thoroughly scan the retail ailes for products that
needs improvement or updating, from prices to packaging.
• Being a Visionary - You need to have the desire to create a dream, the
perseverance to follow it, and the intelligence to orchestrate it.
• Being Passionately Independent - When you are possessed with a passion for
creation and a desire for freedom to be your own boss, you are well on your way to
becoming an entrepreneur.
• Being Self Confident - Give your ideas your full effort from start to finish .
• Being Persistent - You need to have the persistence to bring your worthwhile
projects to market despite all the challenges and obstacles you will face.
• Being Realistic - Develop your instinct to know when to cut lose or when to stay on
course as some challenges are simply too big, too costly and too risky to continue.
• Being in the Moment - Learn from your mistakes and learn from them.
There are certain characteristic traits needed to start and run a business. Most of us already
have good characteristic traits or we can develop them over time. Have you ever wondered
whether or not you have the characteristic traits to become successful in business? See the list
below for the top ten characteristic traits of a successful entrepreneur.
1) Organization
2) Motivation
3) Honesty
4) Perseverance
5) Vision
6) Adaptability
7) Competitiveness
8) Risk Taking
9) Confidence
10) Persuasiveness
The ten characteristic traits listed above are a few of the many that you will need to
possess to get started in a business and become successful in it. You may want to make note of
two traits from the list above that you already possess as an entrepreneur. Or, you may want to
make note of two traits that you need to develop to become a successful entrepreneur. Now you
can make plans to develop these and other traits, if you do not already possess them.
As a woman, you may have to work a little harder than a man to develop some of the
characteristic traits listed above. For example, some women may find it difficult in their new
company to be competitive because as a child they may have been told that “a lady is to be seen
and not heard,” therefore she may not be as aggressive as she should be in her business.
However, many women have found out that once they learn how to play the game, the rules
become easier to follow.