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- │SELF-EVALUATION CHECKLIST FOR GOING INTO BUSINESS│
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- The following is a series of questions designed to help determine
- whether your personal characteristics, attitudes, likes and dislikes
- are indicative of whether you are well-suited to starting your own
- business. Each question in this test is a multiple-choice question
- with 3 possible answers. When each question is displayed, read it over
- carefully and then enter your response, either A, B or C. Be as honest
- as possible in selecting your responses. When you have answered all
- the questions, you will be given a score, from 0 to 20, plus a rating.
-
- Source: Checklist for Going into Business, SBA Small Marketers Aid #71
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- 1. ARE YOU A SELF STARTER?
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- A. I do things on my own. Nobody has to tell me to
- get going.
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- B. If someone gets me started, I keep going all right.
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- C. Easy does it. I don't put myself out until I have to.
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- 2. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE?
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- A. I like people. I can get along with just about anybody.
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- B. I have plenty of friends--I don't need anyone else.
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- C. Most people irritate me.
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- 3. CAN YOU LEAD OTHERS?
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- A. I can get most people to go along when I start something.
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- B. I can give the orders if someone tells me what we should
- do.
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- C. I let someone else get things moving. Then I go along
- if I feel like it.
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- 4. CAN YOU TAKE RESPONSIBILITY?
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- A. I like to take charge of things and see them through.
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- B. I'll take over if I have to, but I'd rather let
- someone else be responsible.
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- C. There's always some eager beaver around wanting to
- show how smart he (she) is. I say, let him (her).
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- 5. HOW GOOD AN ORGANIZER ARE YOU?
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- A. I like to have a plan before I start. I'm usually the one
- to get things lined up when the group wants to do something.
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- B. I do all right unless things get too confused. Then I quit.
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- C. You get all set and then something comes along and presents
- too many problems. So I just take things as they come.
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- 6. HOW GOOD A WORKER ARE YOU?
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- A. I can keep going as long as I need to. I don't
- mind working hard for something I want.
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- B. I'll work hard for a while, but when I've had
- enough, that's it.
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- C. I can't see that hard work gets you anywhere.
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- 7. CAN YOU MAKE DECISIONS?
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- A. I can make up my mind in a hurry if I have to.
- It usually turns out okay, too.
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- B. I can if I have plenty of time. If I have to make
- up my mind fast, I think later I should have decided
- the other way.
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- C. I don't like to be the one who has to decide things.
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- 8. CAN PEOPLE TRUST WHAT YOU SAY?
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- A. You bet they can. I don't say things I don't mean.
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- B. I try to be on the level most of the time, but
- sometimes I just say what's easiest.
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- C. Why bother if the other fellow doesn't know the
- difference?
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- 9. CAN YOU STICK WITH IT?
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- A. If I make up my mind to do something, I don't
- let anything stop me.
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- B. I usually finish what I start--if it goes well.
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- C. If it doesn't go right I quit. Why beat your
- brains out?
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- 10. HOW GOOD IS YOUR HEALTH?
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- A. I never run down!
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- B. I have enough energy for most things I want to do.
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- C. I run out of energy sooner than most of my friends
- seem to.
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- <FINAL QUESTION>
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