Sally has a high-paying management position with a Fortune 500 company, but she is tired of working for corporate America. So Sally has decided to start a business, and she knows she will be successful as an entrepreneur because entrepreneurs typically

A. have a high need for achievement.
B. have little tolerance for risk.
C. have an external locus of control.
D. have a low need for achievement.
E. believe others control their destiny.


A. have a high need for achievement.

Entrepreneurs certainly seem to be motivated to pursue moderately difficult goals through their own efforts in order to realize their ideas and, they hope, financial rewards.

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