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Are you an Entrepreneur?


This Quiz is about your passion for business. It's about going into business for yourself. Before committing yourself to becoming an entrepreneur fill out this quiz honestly and find out if you have what it takes and if this entrepreneurial life is for you. This quiz was written to be taken as if you are still employed. If you have already started your business, just answer as if you were still employed.





1. Does your family stand by you in everything you undertake?

Yes.
Sometimes.
Not Often
No.


2. Do you carry out less pleasant tasks, even though you would like to do something else?

Yes.
Most of the time.
Yes, but grudgingly
No.


3. Are you organized and methodical at work?

Yes.
Most of the time.
occasionally.
No.


4. Does it frustrate you if you are unable to buy the things you want?

Yes.
Quite often.
Not often
No.



5. Can you find anything you want in your work-place in around three minutes?

Yes.
Sometimes.
Not often.
No.


6. Are you/were you happy in your current job?

Yes.
Sometimes.
Not often.
No.


7. Do you achieve best when you have some-one managing and directing you?

Yes.
Find I can accomplish more.
Have problems following orders.
No.


8. As an employee did you/do you keep your head down and get on with it, or do you suggest ideas at various levels?

Always suggesting changes.
Quite often suggest changes.
Hardly ever make suggstions
Make no suggestions.


9. Does being in a noisy office, cramped working conditions or a poor neighbourhood prevent you from achieving?

Don't notice
Can do sometimes.
Find it difficult to concentrate
Get annoyed by interruptions.


10. Do you want your own business?

Absolutely.
Thinking about it.
Only if I can come up with a totally secure idea.
Not really.


11. Do you handle personal finance well?

Yes, carefully and diligently at all times.
Most of the time.
I try every so often but find it difficult to live within a budget.
No, I am useless.


12. How seriously do you take your mistakes at work, even if you are only partly to blame?

Very seriously.
Try to fix them before anyone notices.
Lose little sleep over them.
Find someone else to blame.


13. Are you a people person?

Yes.
In small doses.
Prefer my own company
Would be a hermit by choice.


14. Do you plan your work and your personal life?

Yes, always.
If it seems important.
Seldom.
No, not at all.


15. Is the money you could make the primary reason for contemplating your own business?

Yes.
I like to be in control of my destiny.
Sometimes
No.


16. How flexible are you in your work day? If things become difficult do you adapt and complete the task?

Yes.I adapt easily
I adapt relatively easily.
I am a little flexible depending on the circumstances.
No, I down Tools.


17. Do you feel you can truly shape your own destiny

Yes.
sometimes.
Not sure.
No.


18. Do you like taking risks and calculated gambles?

Yes.
If the odds are in my favour.
Do it without thinking of the consequences.
No.


19. Do you keep your head in a crisis?

Yes.
Depends on the crisis.
I don't know.
No. I completely lose it.


20. If there were plenty of good jobs, would you still want your own business?

Yes, definately.
I would consider it.
Don't know.
No.











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