5 habits of a successful entrepreneur

What is your New Year's purpose? Does it have to do with the success of your business? According to the Get 2 Grow website, there are 472 million entrepreneurs in the world and around 100 million startups per year. Nowadays, an innovative idea or the courage and effort to achieve it is no longer enough, nor is it about the best contacts or being in the exact place at the right time. Being a successful entrepreneur is a lifestyle (no matter how cliché it sounds); It is what is required to adopt certain habits that, in the long run, will make the difference.

The British news portal The Telegraph was given the task of conducting research on the habits of the entrepreneur that, according to experts, are essential to build the road to success. Below, we present you the best habits to become a great entrepreneur this 2016.

1. Spend money to earn money
   "Money is a means to make more money," says Oliver Emberton, founder of software firm Silktide. "During his childhood, Warren Buffett and a friend bought a gaming machine for $ 25; in a few months, his small-box business had expanded in such a way that he began to generate regular income. " Entrepreneurs use money to acquire goods that generate money that generates goods that generate money, and so on.

2. Identify solutions, not problems
   According to Andrei Kolodovski, self-styled serial entrepreneur and widely recognized in Silicon Valley, "true entrepreneurs are always looking to make their ideas work, while the rest is focused on identifying all the reasons why their idea is not going to work. If an entrepreneur encounters an obstacle, he mobilizes and looks for ways to overcome it. The rest sees it as an excuse to surrender. "

3. Breakfast uncertainty
   Entrepreneurs do not conflict with unanswered questions, according to William Franceschine, a California entrepreneur: "What kind of medical insurance will I have? What will happen if the competition copies my idea? How am I going to collect the money? What if someone already has the patent for this? This type of unanswered questions could cause most people not to create Facebook even if they were given a time machine to return to 2003. These questions do not bother successful entrepreneurs, they have the confidence that they will find the best answers and are at peace with the fact of traveling an inherently risky territory ".

4. Have a sense of urgency
   "Successful entrepreneurs never have time," says Kolodovski. "When they are tasked with a task, they look for the most efficient and quickest way to complete it and move on, always keeping in mind the big picture. Average people tend to focus on minor details and get stuck in the process. "

5. Be a positive realist
   "They bet intelligently - that's what getting rich means - an honest appreciation of the odds, a skill that few possess," says Emberton. "Many of the truths of life are uncomfortable, complicated or counterintuitive, and it takes a real effort to distinguish one from the other; however, the absence of perfect information helps to see the world under a positive gaze. The pessimists are not good entrepreneurs. "

Optimism, instinct and vision. Ability not only to see beyond, but to contemplate the future with good eyes and know when and how much to risk: always with new objectives in sight, always strategist and clear, trusting firmly and all the time in the idea that inspired you to form your business. What do you expect? Adopt these habits and make the difference between your company and the rest this 2019.