1. Entrepreneurs are made and not born.

No one will be a entrepreneur by birth, they

are made through their life. He may be born with some skills which may help him
to become a entrepreneur. If someone is born entrepreneur then why should they
wait for 16 to 25 yrs to become business men and why are they taking their
education.
So a person can have the qualities of a entrepreneur by birth but can't be a entrepreneur.
By Sheetal Jadhav, Sales/BD Manager,
2. Entrepreneurs are made not born. I have never seen Bill Gates children as
entrepreneurs; I have never seen Steve Jobs children as entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs are made throughout life as they learn from environment,
situations and so on. Look the example of Mark Zukerberg, He even got the idea
after launching his website called smashed face. Where was he before? Everyone
is born with unique characteristics and some sharpen it fast and some took more
time. besides that, its fate that some will turn into entrepreneurs and some will
work with others but still they will manage to leave.... Thus i strongly believe that
entrepreneurs are made and not born..
By Abdul Qahar, BA in Marketing student, Binary University | undefined

3. "Entrepreneur are Born" it shows a negativity do you think like that..? Although
many experienced professional argue for support and oppose the sentence but
what is result? Let us discuss about it: 1)-If we are supporting "Entrepreneur are Born" then it means no other
person will become Entrepreneur. And all of us know that strong
willingness is more powerful tool than any other to achieve any goal. If
our thoughts like that then for future it will become a universal truth that
"Entrepreneur are born please don't try to waste your precious time go
for other". Also Provide examples to them about successful
entrepreneurs' family background etc.
2)- If we are supporting "Entrepreneur are Made" then it means we are
supporting a positive sense of idea. It doesn't matter that someone
become entrepreneur or not but we can teach or advise to all children
that yeah, try to become entrepreneur by clear your vision & strong your
willingness power Hope for best.

Also provide example to them about few entrepreneurs' who didn't have powerful family
background.........

4. In most cases when employees see that they have known the business tricks.
They start their own business. I think this is increasing.
5. entrepreneurs are made they derive the enthusiasm of taking risk. The situating
the opportunity one sees in the environment and develops the venture are result
of what he learnt from his life
By Aditi Gupta, Back Office Executive, leo computer | undefined
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I am of the opinion that entrepreneurship is nothing but managing all your

resources in a way that you get best results. It only happens when you have good
amount of experience and are well versed with all the aspects of business. So by
the way of gathering rich experience and utilizing it well, a person can become a
good entrepreneur.

Regarding entrepreneurs being born, there might only be a few cases which would
support this argument otherwise if you look at top entrepreneurs in today's world you
will definitely say that they have made their way up with their expertise, experience and
calculated risk taking ability.
By Shaji Khan, Managing Director, Eskay Consultants | undefined
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Entrepreneurs are made and not born. Because when a person facing a problem
or not satisfy with a product then he make a new product or service. We take an
example KFC we all know that item he is not satisfy with chicken item then he
start a business .his age is around 50 . So a person will become an entrepreneur
when he was facing a problem we can take another example hotels in India. By
born anybody not become great person or entrepreneur. When he faces the
problems or not satisfy with the product and he aware of the society. we take lot
of examples a person suffering from heat when he was walking then he think that
we want shoes that time he make a that product.
It is like the Chinese proverb that goes like this: MAN MAKES MONEY , MONEY
MAKES MONEY AND FINALY THE MONEY MAKE THE MAN....

Like this the urge & Fire manifested in his deep heart comes out with great pressure ,
when it is activated by the social environment shapes him as a successful Entrepreneur.
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E.g. A successful athlete may have a good genetic background (parents may be
successful athletes), but if he does not practice, he is not going to be a successful
athlete. Thus, entrepreneurs are made and not born.......
10 I believe that entrepreneurs are made. I person has to develop his thinking in
terms of going for a steady job or to become his own boss. Also at the same time
he has to plan and utilize his resources to the best of his capabilities to become
successful in the planned venture.

11 My opinion is made.
The dictionary meaning for this word is: one who ventures into bringing capital and
labour into play and starts industries.
In this world, the proper environment is the mother for all. The time & environment
creates & destroys. Everyone is learning from the time & environment. Any skills,
attitudes, leadership quality, administrative capacity, or anything have been taken or
learned or educated from the time & environment through which one is brought up.
By birth everybody is zero. The zero has no value, but if one number is added to zero it
becomes value. Hence anything is made here in the world. God/Nature has created
everything for mankind. It depends upon the people as to how they should be the
men or women have to think and decide what they are.
12 Human starts his journey from his mother's womb. He will start learning various
things while he is't still born and continue the learning after his birth.
Circumstances will make a person what he is and not his Birth. While responding
to certain situations and making certain choices in life a person will become an
entrepreneur.
13 Agree but to add to that king's example...if the king's son fought with the attacker
or that ditching close ally and won....and that entrepreneurship for me

I believe when i say entrepreneurs are born means taking up their family business for a
example Marvadis who does gold business are experts in this business even a child of
12 years is into this business without any primary education
When i say entrepreneurs are made means hard work, however a student coming out just
from business college may be not be a entrepreneur if he is not financially sound, here i
am not saying a IIM/XLRI guy opening a tea shop in front of a bus stop, to be
a entrepreneur he has to have live experience in the business, financially sound and
according to his status be a true entrepreneur ..

Answer:
BORN - According to some people, attitude is the most important personal
characteristic, and one that cannot be trained. The attitude of the entrepreneur
affects the early success of the venture. That same attitude needs to be present
in the firm's employees to continue the entrepreneurial energy that creates
competitive advantage in the operation of the business, even after it has become
a large successful company.
Another opinion:
However, attitude is not everything in terms of actually having success at an
entrepreneurial business. Knowledge about financial and marketing is far more
important in today's world in order to be able to compete in the economic market,
as far as small businesses are concerned. A person can have good aptitude and
the drive to get something started, but do they have the knowledge to keep it
going and actually learn something from it? MONEY drives business, so much
more than attitude will. Thus an entrepreneur can also be made because they
have to have the knowledge and skills to make a business on their own work like
it should and not have to ride on the coat-tails of their employers. Any dummy
can start a business, but it takes a knowledgeable person to make it grow and
prosper.
Becoming an entrepreneur requires two things, only one of which can be learned.
The first requirement is having the right skill set to run a successful business.
Business skills are things like knowing about advertising and marketing, hiring
and firing, money and accounting, etc. These things can all be learned.
That said, the second part of entrepreneurships is more inherent and not so
easily learned. This is the willingness to take a risk. Some people are comfortable
with risks, but many people are not. That is fine. Not everyone is an entrepreneur.
Some people are artists, some are athletes, some are employees, and some are
entrepreneurs. If risk-taking is not your thing, then neither, probably, is
entrepreneurship.

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Successful and Unsuccessful

Entrepreneurs

Successful

Creative and
Innovative
Position themselves
in shifting or new
markets
Create new products
Create new
processes
Create new delivery

Unsuccessful

Poor Managers
Low work ethic
Inefficient
Failure to plan and
prepare
Poor money
managers

Characteristics of
Entrepreneurs
Key Personal
Attributes
Strong Managerial
Competencies
Good Technical Skills

Who are entrepreneurs?

Common traits

Original thinkers
Risk takers
Take responsibility
for own actions
Feel competent and
capable
Set high goals and
enjoy working
toward them

Common traits

Self employed parents

Firstborns
Between 30-50 years old
Well educated 80%
have college degree and
1/3 have a graduate level
degree

Successful
Entrepreneurs

Nature or nurture: Are entrepreneurs born or made?

The debate over whether entrepreneurs are just born that way, or can be taught the skills
to start and run a successful business, certainly divides opinion. Lucie Mitchell examines
both sides of the argument.

1- Recent research by Amway revealed that, to become a successful entrepreneur, you

must be in possession of the 'e-gene', which is categorised by six different personality
traits as identified by Chris Coleridge, an innovation researcher at the London School of
Economics.
The six traits are: difficult background; minority/disadvantaged group; disability; risklover and optimist; independence and social distinction; and need for achievement and
power. Coleridge argues that a combination of these six traits can be identified in all
successful entrepreneurs.

2- According to the research, Richard Branson has four of the traits disability, risklover and optimist, independence and social distinction, and need for
achievement/power,
3- whilst Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, possesses three - difficult
background, minority/disadvantaged group, and independence and social distinction.

"Having researched entrepreneurs' personalities and traits, most of the successful

possess an effectual logic an approach to solving a problem that starts not with the
desired end but with the available means, limiting the risk of failure," he adds.

4- Jonathan Richards entrepreneur believes that an entrepreneurial mindset is the sum of

all our experiences and it is not something that we are born with.
"An entrepreneur is created when an idea comes together with a person who is happy to
balance creativity and management; understand, live with and manage risk; evangelizes
the idea in the face of negativity; and stay responsive and positive," he says.

5- Former Dragons' Den judge and founder of School for Startups Doug Richard also
believes that nobody is born an entrepreneur and that entrepreneurship can most
definitely be taught.
5- "Nobody can claim to be born an entrepreneur, and nobody wakes up one day with a
successful business and brand. Hard work, mistakes and a determined attitude
combined with the right support at the right time are the not-so-magic formula."

6- Serial entrepreneur Jerry Brand has started five businesses over the last 30 years
and, it could be argued, possesses some of the traits that make up the e-gene. He says
that working for yourself is completely instinctive for the 'born entrepreneur'.
7- According to researcher Brand argues that while entrepreneurs may have certain
similar traits in them from birth, it is how these skills are coaxed and encouraged in the
future that counts.
He adds that education plays a vital role in encouraging the entrepreneurs of the future.
8- Ben Cook, co-founder of Clever Tykes, a series of childrens books that promote
positive entrepreneurial role models, believes that entrepreneurship can be learnt, rather
than taught.
9- Entrepreneur are not traditional these can be learnt through experience.
10- There are many would-be entrepreneurs who believe that gaining a MBA qualification
from a business school is an important stepping stone to starting their own business.

11- One such person is Corrado Accardi, founder of Pizza Rossa, a chain of takeaway
pizzerias by-the-slice.
who had originally qualified as a chartered engineer, first started to think about his
business in 2009, but found that many investors werent open to his idea because he
didnt have the credibility to start and operate a food business at that time.
London Business School, which he believes played a key part in the success of his
launch and business model.
the MBA, it most likely would not have been possible."

12- Steve Cousins, MBA recruitment and admissions manager at Cass, remarks that the
school is seeing an increasing amount of students citing entrepreneurship as a reason
they are interested in doing an MBA.

Entrepreneurs are made not born

According to an Ernst & Young report Nature or nurture? Decoding the DNA of the
entrepreneur,[Ref 5] out of 685 entrepreneurial leaders surveyed, more than half described
themselves as transitioned meaning that they had some experience outside of the
world of entrepreneurship before launching their ventures.
The report further states that although there are notable examples of entrepreneurial
leaders who left college to form hugely successful businesses, such as Bill Gates of
Microsoft or Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, these are very much in the minority.
Among the survey respondents, some form of business experience was considered a vital
foundation that increased the chances of future entrepreneurial success and about 55% of
the respondents said they had started their first venture after the age of 30.
The conclusion that can be drawn from these two countering arguments is that just as there
are so many different entrepreneurial ideas, there is no one route to entrepreneurship.
While there are some who are born with a desire to create ventures and have inherent
qualities that make them successful entrepreneurs, there are others who learn and acquire
them along the way.