What is it like to be an entrepreneur? There is much to this term. Much more than it's definition in the dictionary, which states that such person is the "one who undertakes to carry out an enterprise". To be a good entrepreneur means to be a leader and a manger, to know what people need and how to supply them, to have a sharp mind to find opportunities and take chances, to have extraordinary sense of luck and make good impressions on people. Entrepreneurship is about using your potential at 100% capacity. It is about building yourself. Although it gives you much more opportunities than a regular job, it also has its advantages and disadvantages.
When starting a business of your own, you have responsibilities of bookkeeper, manager, salesperson and secretary all at the same time. Even if he or she has staff that can carry out their own responsibilities, an entrepreneur must be a founder of new ideas and supervise the situation in the company to make it a success. Those who take a challenge, become an owner, a boss and a judge of their own life. The way of being a boss is for people who know that talent of entrepreneurship is not given to you at birth but rather it is what you can develop by working hard and relentlessly trying to achieve your goals. There are many good examples of how people turned their lives from being a regular employee or even having nothing all the way to becoming world-class multi-million global companies.
Bob Reiss, successful entrepreneur and author of Low-Risk, High-Reward: Starting and Growing Your Small Business With Minimal Risk, says: "Entrepreneurship is the recognition and pursuit of opportunity without regard to the resources you currently control, with confidence that you can succeed, with the flexibility to change course as necessary, and with the will to rebound from setbacks." The key factor in his definition is that an entrepreneur takes a chance regardless of the odds, yet mindfully approximating the results and resources.
