An entrepreneur has a positive, flexible and adaptable disposition towards change, seeing it as normal, and as an opportunity rather than a problem. To see change in this way, an entrepreneur has a security, born of self-confidence, and is at ease when dealing with insecurity, risks, difficulty and the unknown. An entrepreneur has the capacity to initiate creative ideas...develop them, and see them through to action in a determined manner. An entrepreneur is able, even anxious, to take responsibility and is an effective communicator, negotiator, influencer, planner and organiser. An entrepreneur is active, confident [and] purposeful, not passive, uncertain or dependent.
- OECD, quoted in Ball, Knight and Plant, "New goals for an enterprise culture".