Are entrepreneurs born or made?

Ste Hughes said:

Honestly, why would you waste your time debating if other people who have no impact on your life were born naturally or developed the skill to be called a term which we invented to describe someone successful in business.

Spend your energy on yourself. Improve, learn something, work on something, call someone a retard on the internet...

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you should do the same , instead of trolling around

Anthropology student here. There are many theories about this, one of them refers to something called "psychic unity", which basically says we human beings share the same evolutionary potential, and we depend on social and cultural factors to shape our personalities. Mabe as a kid you watched someone hustle, and because of your social context it made an impact on you, so you started focusing on that part of trading. Under a different social and cultural context, you could have focused on feelings, and being fair in your tradings by giving people something of equal value.

If you combine that with Jung's personality types you might find that yo have developed a "hustler" personality (like Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett) which by the way, only make up 2-5% of the population. Other personality types have different strenghts, so they might find difficult to hustle one on one, but have the intelligence to invent something revolutionary, or the charisma to be great entertainers and become rich anyway.

Take the Myers-Briggs test and find your personality type, most people are very surprised by how accurate it can be.

Majority are born, minority are made in my opinion

Everyone is made to an extent. But being born with talent to do it gives an advantage over others.

Nobody is born with anything. You get what you put into things

They're made

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I think that experience counts for the entrepreneurs, they started young, put plenty of work hours into their "vision", even If they didn't know they had.
Things start to come "naturally" after you learned plenty of things just by having fun and building stuff.

Do you really believe that there is a gene? Or do you tell yourself that to make you feel better about not trying to make yourself into one?

Actually both tbh, you have to be born and made.

DigitalCity said:

could be either or. some are natural born hustlers....some are shaped and made in to money making machines...

gates, escobar, jobs, trump, freeway rick, us the government, lol you could dissect each one and thy each have there own unique story...

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You missed out Ceosam

I don't know why but I always created some stuff since I was a little kid. Drawings, little card games, music, beats, writing lyrics, learning another languages, little PC games, animations, making websites and programming. I got thousands of different projects made by me on my computer.

Without producing: I always felt so bad and pointless. Sometimes I even say that I wish I had only one or two interests instead of focusing on dozens of different fields in the past, so I could become real professional at only one or maximum two things in life. But don't hide behind bullshit excuses, it's never too late if you want to do something.

Not all are born young Ray Croc who founder Mcdonalds was in his fifties and suffered from bad health, i think age is unimportant nowadays as many of the older generation are starting businesses.
I know young and older business owners. It's born out of desire for change, some people are happy to earn a wage, have a nice house and car and that's it, some prefer the challenge and desire more from life. whatever age you are - go for it as you only get one shot at life, better to try and fail than never try at all!

I think most are made through life experience and upbringing. Depending on what kind of real world realizations hit a kid early on in life will determine what kind of drive they have.

Me personally I have the drive, but have other shit like college get in the way. And it's easy for someone not in school to say "well your dreams should come first" but if you're dumping 5 figures into school you better damn well walk away with that piece of paper with your name on it.

I've often thought about how much better off I'd be if I found a business partner with the same drive and want as me to do well in life. But finding those for someone like me who's introverted is really difficult.

Its the same as bodybuilding some are born and some train/develop.

I don't think entrepreneurs are born but yes they are made. If a person work hard and take interest for their own business how can be a person called entrepreneurs. An entrepreneurs can be made by providing guidelines, education and capital for their business.

It can be learnt but some people are born with that lessons

From what I've seen, the entrepreneurial spirit is something that one is born with.

When I was 10 years old I picked up over 5,000 lipsticks in a yard sale for $20. The family owned a kiosk selling beauty supplies but they ran out of business and they got rid of all the lipsticks that had no boxes for cheap. So I picked them up and I knew I can make money on them.

I lived in a not so good neighborhood but I saw opportunities, I went door to door to all the corner stores that sell everything. Like the ones that you can pick up a can of spam and a weave for your girl, and then decide to buy some new sneakers they have in stock. I wholesaled them for cheap, and told them you can sell them to your customers twice the price or more. And a lot of business owners were interested: first reason was because they were amused to see a 10 year old trying to sell cosmetic products to them, and the markup price is 100%-150%. And to them thats a gold mine.

So I had to run back home a lot to supply myself more lipsticks to sell, and that day I made close to $870. Selling each lipstick to corner store owners for $1.50 and they sold them around $3-$4, so both parties were making money.

My mom was so proud of me, and the next morning we woke up with an eviction notice hanging on our front door. And as the 10 year old I was, I gave my mom all the money I made to cover the bill in triumph and joy. My mom bursted in tears and wished me success and prosperity. The next day I met a man that employed 100 employees and required all of them to buy lipstick from me.

So looking back at it I can say the entrepreneur in me was not developed after birth, but it came with the package of birth... or from the impact of the drop made by the doctor when I was born, but who knows

People get shaped when they are young from what they see and feel. They can be influenced by unknown people or their family. I was born in a relatively wealthy family for the standards of my country and city, but I was never spoilt by my parents and I learned that If I wanted something, I had to find my own way to get it.

That's why when I became 15 years old I started to research different ways to make money and I started with Facebook, where I found a partner [4 years older] and we started making about 100$ a week [without splitting]. Two years later, I personally make about 500$. So I guess, entrepreneurs are being made when they are really young.

According to my thought, it's ideas ( and implementations of ideas, too) that sell. It does not matter who you are and what you did before. What matters is that idea which you lived to fullfill. Consider facebook, Google and some other billion doller companies. I know you can't prove me wrong..

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