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- 5 Signs You May Be An Entrepreneur At Heart - April 29, 2012
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Being an entrepreneur sounds great to a lot of people. You are your own boss. You come and go as you please. You answer to no one. But not everyone has the personality or drive to be in business for themselves. To put it bluntly, sometimes being an entrepreneur sucks. Sometimes you’ll get discouraged and unmotivated. You’ll doubt yourself. You’ll work with incredibly low budgets. Perhaps no budget. It’s also risky but the rewards outweigh the risk.
But what makes a good entrepreneur? Here are 5 telling signs you may just be an entrepreneur at the core:
The ideas never stop coming to you
You’re always coming up with new ideas or ways to do something better. You may even have new ideas coming in before you even finish drawing out plans for your previous one. A typical trait of an entrepreneur will be a constant flood of ideas that you simply cannot shut off.
You’ll stop in the middle of conversations or dinner to scribble an idea down on paper, napkin, arms and whatever else is around. I’ve written ideas in a text message to myself and left movies to go work on a new budding idea. Sometimes the ideas interrupt your life but you find a way to work on them immediately.
You hate playing dress up
Typically, those in business for themselves will wear what they want when they want. Particularly in a startup environment, the uniform is casual such as jeans, shirt, and maybe even flip flops. Your business suits and dress shirts will stand stagnant in your closet while you opt for the more comfortable option.
Things are never good enough even when they’re great
A common sign of a good entrepreneur is one that never settles, even when things seem perfect. There is always something that can be done and something that can be done better. You may find yourself striving for perfection or working at 10 pm on a Friday night while your friends are at the bar. This may bother you but knowing things can improve in your business will bother you more.
You’ll work for food, beer, gift cards, etc, at least at first
Money is going to be scarce when venturing out on your own. You may still hold a fulltime job while working on business during the nights and weekends. But you’ll be spending a good portion of your income on making your business grow. Naturally, money is important and a high profit is one of the many rewards of this lifestyle. But at first, you won’t be concerned with that. The business comes first and you accept it.
You started a business before you started to drive
This happens frequently to many entrepreneurs. I started my first business when I was 8. It wasn’t as successful as so many others before me. But it taught me a great deal. I learned that I loved the game and the challenges. I started another business in high school that raked in just north of $1 million the first year. Eventually it failed and I moved onto other things. The point is, an entrepreneur may have the desire to start and run multiples businesses. It’s one of the best signs to look at when you’re on the road to self discovery.
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Hi Joe! An inspiring post out there! Glad to hear that you stepped in this amazing world when you were just 8. In my story, the number is 15 (I’m soon posting an article here on Comluv about it). Being a teenager, I don’t really do any business as such. I just run a blog and have started reselling domain names, but I surely plan to get into the ‘real’ business one day! Will be following you for more in this field Joe.
PS Even I love enjoy good hair-cuts! Cheers
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Thanks for reaching out!
I’ve done the reselling of domains. Don’t settle yourself short. It takes business skill to monitor and acquire these domains. Inevitably, some domains will flop but every so often you’ll have a good one that will pay off.
Thanks again.
Hi Joe,
I always met your above criteria to be a Entrepreneur. However, I started much later in life than you did. After working at the largest CPA Firms (Big 4 Firms) I started my own practice. I agree with you its rough at first since most of the income is pumped back into the business. But with intelligence and motivation a entrepreneur will always be successful.
Thanks for the blog very motivating.
Ken
Twitter: ajacwebdesign
I find that being a serial entrepreneur anytime something happens that I think is too tedious I immediately begin trying to figure out a better way of doing it. It exhausts my poor wife.
As a side note, I started selling the seashells I collected on my summer beach trip to the kids in Maine when I was 8. All about supply and demand!
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Thanks for commenting.
I did something similar to that when I was younger. I gathered up as many figurines and pokemon cards as I could and sold them to the other kids. Made a nice profit.
Thanks again,
Joe
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I’ve always hated having a boss and making other people rich, that’s why I set out on my own. Yeah I’ve done a few favours and freebies along the way but those acts of kindness usually seem to pay off somewhere down the line.I’m always coming up with crazy ideas, usually I forget what they are when another crazy idea pops into my head! I guess that’s good for creativity but sometimes you just need to focus on making it happen rather than flit from one idea to the next, things take time!
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One more point, If you also have the consistency factor and never giving up attitude, it may too Signs You May Be An Entrepreneur At Heart.
The most common factor which we get to know about the “Successful Entrepreneur”.
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If there is a will, there is a way. Ofcourse, we all heard that. But when starting a new business, you have to have a strong willpower and strive through failures and difficulties. Thank you for sharing these amazing discoveries one can make about themselves. Great article!
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Entertaining article. Makes sense all the way. There is definitely something unique about those that go for it and do there own thing. I know people in my industry that have been working for someone else for 30 and are masters at what they do and I can’t figure out why they have never gone out and started their own company.
To me it seems from these signs, that I am an entrepreneur
) Really. Thanks Joe
Indeed the best sign of an entrepreneur is that he is never fully relaxed. He is always thinking and thinking. Then he starts writing ideas down… A friend of mine has created a startup. He is like the people your post describes.
I would really like to try and do it myself (be an entrepreneur) but I prefer being a little bit more relaxed for the time being!
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“You’re always coming up with new ideas or ways to do something better. You may even have new ideas coming in before you even finish drawing out plans for your previous one” – so very true.
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We need to have clear goals and need to keep motivated, in order to be a successful entrepreneur. I have entered my online activity when I was 30 and learned so many things about how to success? and how hard we need to work for that?
So my success is defined by my friends in social communities who motivating me to keep me work better.
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I think there is something to this. Entreprenuers are often born, not made. Although you can do things to encourage your entrepreneurial spirit, often it is simply that some people are born to it…while others need to constantly work at it.
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One of the hardest things to do, at least for me, is to stay focused on one thing and say no to many opportunities. I’ve created a system where I will jot down my ideas but I will only return to it when the project I am focusing on is either in a very good place or is ready to be scrapped.
This is a great post about entrepreneurs and gives a lot of insight into the thought process of an entrepreneur.
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Such an inspiration and appreciable post found here. Many people thinks about it, but how many can fulfill it.
Really Like Mike I also hate boss, work under boss life like hell!!
Now thinks again after reading this do something own.
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Scary article, a bit like looking in the mirror or going to a fortune teller. However, focus is the key. Good on you for the freebie seo for non-profit making societies. Entertaining, thank you.
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I get so many ideas that by the time I get to select one and do something about it I also think about the 1000′s of ways this could bomb. This keeps holding me back to realize my true potential. But I still fight my negative thoughts and try to go ahead.
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I was a late starter I worked from leaving school at 15 but realized by the time I was 25 that there was a much better way of making money. I worked weekends and nights and eventually started my own business when I was 30 years old. I was making and installing vinyl windows and I kept that business for 21 years then the recession hit and I had to give it up. I moved from the UK to the sunny Costa Blanca in Spain and now make all my money on line.
I have them all except for the last one, unless you count writing novels as a part of that. Oh well, this is a good start and gives me some hope. Thanks for sharing this, it was a well timed article for me personally.
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Interesting article, when I first quit the corporate world to “Do what I love” I quickly realized that there are many aspects to running a business that I was not prepared for, I eventually got through it , but had I known what it would take I might have just stayed where I was lol
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Sorry to hear you struggled. I still struggle daily. Naturally, there are numerous things about running a business that are zero fun. In my case, it would be inventory management and customer service. I mean I enjoy helping with customers, it just sometimes can get old.
Thanks for reading and the comment!
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Great post. Nothing better than being your own boss as long as you have the drive and ambition to stay focused and on task when needed. Entrepreneurs don’t work, because most love what they do. I an work 12 hours a day and not even realize it, because I’m having a great time.
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That’s great to hear. I completely agree with you. I love getting up the next day and getting to work. I think it’s because I enjoy watching the business grow and develop.
Thanks for the comment!
Yup! I’m a comic book artist and illustrator, and have been hustling art since middle school. I was always intimidated by the “business” side of it, but I was always unofficially doing business, creating and selling and doing verbal contracts. I only recognized and seeing myself as a business in my thirties. Like Jay-z said “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
Even when I have a job, I think of myself as a business doing work for a larger business. Just that change in perspective has led to lots of freelance work and opportunities!
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generating ideas is good, putting them into action is even better
trying new things also is a very important thing to attain, you never know when you may need certain knowledge or skills on a certain matter
one that never settles…good point joe!
thanks
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entrepreneurship sounds to be good, but its a very tuff work to be. You need to be mentally as well as sometimes financially ready to face challenges. its all about taking risks and facing challenges…and trying out different strategies…
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Hahaha. That’s amazing. The first three certainly apply to me, but not sure of the remaining two. However, nobody except you can calculate my personality to have even a far-fledged connection with entrepreneurship.
By the way, you’re a beautiful write as well!
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This blog post is pretty inspiring. Now I think that I may be an entrepreneur at heart! I guess all I need is motivation though and determination to look for resources to start my own business.
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Hey Joe! A very motivating article up there. I’m so glad I discovered that you were just 8 when you entered the world of entrepreneurship! I wish I could start off that early too. Anyway, I’m so much into my business just like you. I can literally work for food, beer, etc. just like you mentioned above
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Oh how I envy those that have the gift and the capacity to be an entrepreneur. A great entrepreneur, for me, always know what ticks the people. Recognizing and acknowledging what the people wants is a skill. I hope I can develop this someday.
Good list. I’m not sure I agree on not liking to dress up but agree entrepreneurs like to be original and are rebels at heart. They’re individuals!
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I can relate to all of these. There are other things you could ad to the list like resourcefulness, and the I don’t give a **** attitude. There are a lot of challenges that come with this sort of lifestyle, and most people give up at the first sign of failure, but not us.
You will also have people doubt you and even outright try to discourage you. Ignore it and keep doing your thing.
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Hello,
Really well written points and inspiring too. The best point was the second one which states that a good entrepreneur never settles even if they have achieve something, there is always a room to do better than the current position and always try bring some new things because Change is the only thing which is Constant.
Thank you for this article and Have a good day.
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Not sure what age I began thinking in terms of profits. I come from a long line of entrepreneurs, and business venture possibilities is a topic we always get around to sharing every time we meet up. The two points that really hit home for me are ‘the ideas never stop coming to you’ and ‘You hate playing dress-up’. Good reading. thanks
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You are right my dear friend, But i think most of the bloggers think they are already enterprenuer and thus keep on posting new ideas, Am i right ?
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I started a business when I was 8. Selling maple trees for 10 cents each. I learned about supply and demand. Everyone had the same saplings growing like weeds in their yards. But some were suckers for a cute little girl, and bought them. Ha!
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Dude, 90% of the above is what describes me….haha….I had been flooded with my own ideas but you know what, that’s a bad thing.
It’s now I realise that focus beats multitasking, just started focusing on two sites at a time….work is fun again!
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And honestly, nearly all of them are in me, failing , starting new and still in phase of working new concepts
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So much of this sounds like me. I can remember as far back as age 6 when I was selling candy and stickers to friends. It eventually turned into car-washing, then card selling, and now finally blogging.
This is in fact such an inspirational post! I am an entrepreneur myself, I started my own business at a very young age risking everything in order to follow my dreams. After three years of hard work and sacrifices my company is flourishing.
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