There are a handful of characteristics successful entrepreneurs possess. The degree to which you have these skills will certainly influence your ability to succeed in a business of your own. Of all the characteristics entrepreneurs have, one that certainly stands tall is the ability to make decisions including those that involve risk. After all the very nature of a true entrepreneur is one that embraces risk.

If you are someone that researches a purchase prior to making it. You are most likely not one to rush into decisions either. This type of decision making, careful and cautious, is certainly a great attribute to have as a business person. However you have to realize that much of what an entrepreneur does is defined by a degree of risk. The very definition of entrepreneur is one that “enters new”. If you are a cautious person you need to be aware that there is risk inherent in starting your venture and despite all your planning, you will be faced with a handful of decisions almost daily that will involve at least some gamble. As your business grows so will the impact of your decisions. The larger decisions will have an increasing degree of risk. This increasing degree of risk however has an upside – an increasing degree of reward if your decision turns out to be right.

If you tend to be a little more fly by the seat of your pants in your decision making, then by a very small margin you will actually rank with the majority of entrepreneurs in your response when looking at a study conducted by the Institute of Small Business Empowerment of 100 entrepreneurs. "We have risk taking in our blood", says entrepreneur Kevin Pearce. Often this risk taking is mistaken in part to be “the reason” the entrepreneur succeeds in their business. This thinking may have some truth however it can cloud the judgement of entrepreneurs and lead them to believe that all their decisions should have a degree of “gut” or risk to them. Beware of this pitfall. Some decisions involve risk, at times a great deal of it but there are a greater number of decisions that can be thought through and analyzed to determine on some basic facts, whether or not they are good or bad ideas. Most of the day to day business decisions can be determined not through the roll of the dice, but through some simple math.

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