The Personality Traits Of Business Owners And DISC
 Successful business owners not only manage their people well but also understand theirs and their employee’s personality, traits and working styles. Using the DISC profile, running the...
Entrepreneurs are people who choose to create their own businesses, rather than work for other people's. This comes with significant risk, but also entitles the entrepreneur to all the rewards of their work and ingenuity. Starting a business offers the business owner a lot of flexibility and self-determination at the cost of increased responsibility. As most new businesses fail within the first few years, entrepreneurs are typically willing to take on more risk than the average person and often end up working significantly harder than an employee -
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From The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which is permanently bookmarked in my copy:
"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?”
— But it’s nicer in here…
So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren’t you running to do what your nature demands?
— But we have to sleep sometime…
Agreed. But nature set a limit on that — as it did on eating and drinking. And you’re over the limit. You’ve had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you’re still below your quota.
You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your own nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for the dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they’re really possessed by what they do, they’d rather stop eating and sleeping than give up practicing their arts. (emphasis mine)
Is helping others less valuable to you? Not worth your effort?
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First question to ask is what sort of people do you want to meet at the event. This will give you a good indication of which events to go to. So, what are you looking for? Drinks for the evening, to learn something, to sell something?

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Entrepreneurs are people who choose to create their own businesses, rather than work for other people's. This comes with significant risk, but also entitles the entrepreneur to all the rewards of their work and ingenuity. Starting a business offers the business owner a lot of flexibility and self-determination at the cost of increased responsibility. As most new businesses fail within the first few years, entrepreneurs are typically willing to take on more risk than the average person and often end up working significantly harder than an employee - especially in those crucial early years.
Entrepreneurs do not fit neatly in any one box. They are free-thinkers and risk-takers, but beyond that their beliefs, values and personalities come in every shape and size. Often entrepreneurs create businesses that reflect their personality or life experience in areas that are of interest to them.
Anybody starting a new business without a fallback has to be willing to put their career and financial security on the line in the hopes of creating something great. For this reason, entrepreneurship requires passion and genuine interest in building a fantastic business.
There is not a simple answer to the question of what makes an entrepreneur succeed. Certainly, hard work is essential, as is a willingness to learn, to build a team and delegate responsibility. Most successful entrepreneurs are intelligent and demonstrate strong strategic thinking skills, but the role of luck cannot be understated. Many great business ideas have failed because they entered the market at the same time as a better funded competitor or they missed a crucial opportunity. Similarly, ideas that may not seem as compelling in their infant form have seen good luck in the early days that allowed them to survive until they could improve their product or service.
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