You'll need initiative to get started. You'll need boundless self-confidence when things don't work out. You'll need to be decisive to make decisions when you've got very little to base them on. You'll need to be flexible to adjust to the changes that come along and yet persevere with the tasks that can't be changed as well as know which they are. Finally, you'll be taking a lot of risks and you have to have a good tolerance for that.
In return you will, at least initially, have a low income and put in more hours than the average employee. As a result, you have to be able to find satisfaction in what you're building up and how you're doing it. Altogether, definitely not for everyone.
A web site in Saskatchewan, Canada, has put up an interesting quiz which you'll find here. It lets you evaluate whether you are an entrepreneur and where, among entrepreneurial skills, your strengths and weaknesses lie. It then gives you some generalized advice about what solutions you can apply to your weak spots and how to use your strengths. You'll probably not find out anything earth-shaking but I did find it useful and got one surprising result which slightly changed my outlook on how I run my business.
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