Many small business owners and enterprisers got their beginning as an employee. They worked for somebody else. The issue is, if you’ve been an employee for years, it may be difficult to shake off the bonds of the employee mentality. What does this mean? If you're an employee mentality, you're more likely to look to other people to tell you what to do. You’ll find it difficult to take responsibility for the success and failure of your endeavor. You see, as an employee, you've no said about how the business is executed. You just work hard to prove your value so that you can stay employed. Which One Are You If you're an entrepreneur or business owner, you think much differently. Essentially the buck stops (and begins) with you. You're responsible for the success and failure of your endeavor. And you are the one who makes all the huge decisions (including who to designate littler decisions too!). To discover if you're thinking like an employee or an entrepreneur, take this fast quiz: •Do you confine your tasks/responsibilities to a subset of what is required for your business to flourish? •Do you base your lifestyle on your revenue? •If a money setback happens, do you shrink your budget to adapt to the reduction in revenue? •Do you constantly seek outside advice to make even daily decisions? If you responded “yes” to most of these queries, chances are you have an employee mentality. Here’s why those with an entrepreneur mentality would answer “no.”