4.0 CONCLUSION

Nowadays, people who want to open a business should not only be a business man, but an entrepreneur. A business man will only focus on profit, but for an entrepreneur, he will try to expand his business with taking countable risks on himself.  Besides that, an entrepreneur will always innovative when doing any decision. It is really important to keep grow and sustain in market.

In this study, the important of the enhancement of entrepreneurial skills and personal qualities have been understood by refer with the evidence of successful entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurial traits that discussed in this study is networked, open risk taker, observant, visionary, failure as an option, open culture, outcome oriented, team oriented and proactive. One of the successful entrepreneurs, who named Colonel Harland Sanders, has used to be the example of the entrepreneurial trait which is failure is an option. His success has proven that the failure is an option is important for an entrepreneur to learn from the past and dealing with the failure. All the knowledge they learn from their failure can make them easier to handling their business, until they approach success in their life.

Besides that, one of the successful entrepreneurs has been identify and analyzed embodied entrepreneurial skills by the entrepreneur. The entrepreneur that has been chosen in this study is Steve Jobs. A short biography shows his life time from childhood until the day he died. Five of his entrepreneurial traits have been discussed in this study too. Those are open risk taker, observant, visionary, team oriented, and proactive. He is a proactive because he cannibalized iPod by creating a new product, which is iPhone. He knew that if they don’t do this, the others will do so. Therefore, it shows that he is a person who making the things happens, without waiting the things happen on him.

In addition, people who want to be a success entrepreneur should implant those entrepreneurial traits in themselves. They can learn the knowledge from education area and refer with another success entrepreneur. Entrepreneur is made, not born.