Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs and how to Acquire Them

Published on: Mar 23, 2017
Entrepreneurship Campus

By Entrepreneurship Campus

Traits of Successful Entrepreneurs and how to Acquire Them

If you're pursuing a dream for becoming a young successful entrepreneur you should know that there is no given recipe for becoming like one of the famous persons that inspire and motivate you all the time. However, there are some characteristics, which successful people share, that can be considered as the main ingredients or the salt and pepper of champion entrepreneurs.
History has shown that some people were at the right time at the right moment, while entrepreneurs have confirmed something else. No matter what the moment was, the ones who took risks succeeded.

According to entrepreneur.com successful people have the following traits:

  • Determined
  • Not afraid to take risks
  • Confident
  • Constant learners
  • Know how to deal with failure
  • Passionate about their businesses
  • Highly adaptable
  • Understand money management
  • Networking experts
  • Great at selling and promoting

Meanwhile, investopedia.com shares a list that includes these traits:

  • Passion and motivation
  • Risk taking
  • Self belief, hard work and discipled dedication
  • Adaptability and flexibility
  • Money management
  • Business and market understanding
  • Planning
  • Networking abilities
  • They include failure in their plans
  • They kind of doubt themselves

As you can notice, these are almost the same things said in different words. When it comes to young entrepreneurs, they aren't completely aware of their skills until they face a real test or challenge. If you want to test yourself, the Youth Citizens Entrepreneurship Competition is the right place. Here is the place where young people share their ideas and experience with peers from all over the world. It is amazing how they think and develop great ideas to solve common issues. The best lesson that people get from these talented members of the YCEC is that sometimes 20 years of experience can equal to two years depending on their quality.
This means that people from developing countries that have faced various situations and problems are eager for knowledge. They want to learn more and acquire skills that help them to succeed. Besides the real examples from previous participants and winner, YCEC provides numerous free online courses that help entrepreneurs to be acquiring most of the above mentioned traits. Even of you know a lot, you don't know everything. Thus keep in mind that constant learning is best way for increasing knowledge and develop your skill-set. YCEC helps you to change your world, so you can help to improve our world.

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Comments (5)

eduheal

7/21/2020Reply

Very important traits. But sometime we may not realize that have these traits until we decide to conceive an idea and implement it. Reading articles like this can also help these our treat have great motivation and encouragement.

Thank you campus administrator

togeda

7/20/2020Reply

Wao! powerful traits for successful entrepreneurs for all to learn from. I really appreciate this. Thank you campus administrator for this article and your continues interest in helping campus members grow.

Wao! Wao!

anjali

6/18/2018Reply

Wow this is great to know for me as want to become entrepreneur and yes of course i want to be successful in it. You have shared a great traits here that we need to have to become successful entrepreneur. Thanks a lot

shuhrakoofi

8/18/2017Reply

Really interesting and awesome.
Thanks

hsdange

3/24/2017Reply

nice article.

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