What I was trying to illustrate was that those reasons shouldn't be the only ones for starting your own business. I agree that those qualities may exist in many entrepreneurs, but they might actually be more of distraction than anything else. Passion for your product or solution should be the driving force behind an entrepreneurial endeavor.

>Passion for your product or solution should be the driving force behind an entrepreneurial endeavor.

I had this discussion with a co-worker. While I think you shouldn't have hatred/distaste for your product or solution, I think it's more important that you have passion for helping your customers/clients in a good-for-everyone way. For this reason I'd ideally entrepreneur in the charity sector, because I have a passion for helping charity organizations.

There might be varying shades of grey to this argument. I'm a web application developer, and my co-worker would only pursue building ASP.NET websites related to his passion, music. Less extreme versions would be either building for any platform in any programming language, something music related. Or building ASP.NET web sites/services but not for music. Also varying definitions of "passion".

Perhaps not for a darling product company. But for something like a fencing company? Sure could be a great reason: You're a surly sonofabitch who doesn't like having a boss and fencing pays fine enough, etc.