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How do I kind a SKILL to become a good entrepreneuer? Dont they have to have that to become one?

I dont know what I am good at and I dunno if I am good at anything really. I am mostly good at selling stuff but thats about it. How am I going to become a entrepreneur who only sells stuff? Dont owning your own business usually incorporate a specific type of thing. Like some one can be good at writing and opens up a magazine company. Or someone is good with painting open up a painting business. But for me I am not good at anything but buying things and selling them for profit. I want to find a skill I am good at and become a entrepreneur in that field. I am 20 male in college and i am one determined individual to become a successful entrepreneur one day. I just need some help in the right way.!

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1. In some locations the state's Department of Labor or their Unemployment Assistance Office runs classes that teach you the accounting skills, organizational skills, graphics skills, talent-focusing skills, public-relations skills, and management skills needed to get started as an entrepreneur. They are free classes taught by people with those skills to others with the same interests as you have and they include talks by people who have successfully done that. Check for your area to see what is available.
2. The successful entrepreneuer has a strong "fire in the belly". He/she is smart and has major energy which he/she is willing to put into starting a company. Often it is smarter to start with something you already know (for instance, you worked in a restaurant and now you are going to own one). An entrepreneuer is a major risk-taker who believes enough in his or her venture to put everything in it. What must be learned is the "business" end of it, including raising capital (if necessary). The big word to describe what all entrepreneuers have is COMMITMENT to success.
3. Most entrepreneurialism depends on sales ability, so you're 80% there. You don't have to be a phenom at anything to be successful at it, either, and you don't have to have a singular love or vision to follow. (It's a complete lie that you must love what you do in order to do well.) Most of small business is salesmanship and common sense, with some accounting tying it all together -- that's why there are so many millions of small businesses out there. If you're a good sales person and don't know what you want to do for yourself yet, try selling for other businesses until you have a clearer picture of what you would make the most money at. A common career trajectory in my field (printing) is starting as a salesperson at one place, hopping from printer to printer for a while gaining knowledge and contacts, then either partnering up with an existing firm or starting your own. Another type of printer is a broker, who actually deals very little with the physical printing and instead has clients and then farms the components out to printers, so they're very independent and practically work out of their vehicles.