Your Comments - Part 7 - "Born or Made"

We promised to provide you with some of the feedback being received on our Linkedin Poll, where we asked the question: Are Entrepreneurs Born, or are they Made?

Our Linkedin Poll was launched on December 18, 2011 and your response has been overwhelming!  Thank you to all who contributed to the debate or voted in our poll.

Below are just a few of the comments that were provided. We have generally not edited what you see below. We trust that it being place on this BLOG will allow opportunity for other to join in the discussion.  Enjoy and please ADD your COMMENTS to this POST!

William Warwick • I think Entrepreneurs are made rather than born. Everyone has the dreams and ideas but the entrepreneur is the one with the self belief in their capabilities and he/she knows who to ask for what help is required to bring it to fruition without succumbing to the idea of failure.  

David Cole • The entrepreneurial spirit is something you either have or do not have. This is therefore part of your personality and you are therefore with born an entrepreneur or not. However, to become a successful entrepreneur is something an individual must work hard to achieve and therefore a successful entrepreneur is made. It is down to the individual if they choose to take a risk and follow their entrepreneurial spirit… 

Ehidiamen Ebhomielen • Have to give this one to Nurture as opposed to Nature, personal experiences environment and background all contribute to the entrepreneurship spirit.However it might not be mutually exclusive, the fact that in the people who take the entrepreneurial plunge in respect to the total population is extremely low.  

Shanell Parris • In my opinion, we are all, whether entrepreneurs or not, made. We as human beings are products of our environment. 

Tony Robinson • A Little bit of both - Risk taking/innovation/etc while you may have the assets and mind set at birth they must be cultivated....  

Traci Davis • You are born with certain personality traits that will suit an entrepreneurial path in life. However, it is the experiences in ones life and exposure to circumstances (and being in the right place at the right time) which all have an impact on those that will take take the entrepreneurial plunge. 

Jeffrey W. (Jeff) Jones, A Business Problem Solver • I think people are inspired to want to own a business. That inspiration can sometimes be misinterpreted in the phrase "born for this". Then the person has to learn how to be a good profitable business owner. That learning and training is then construed as "made"