It is indeed important to think with a difference, if you are looking to become an entrepreneur. Some of the important traits you need to possess in order to think like an entrepreneur are as follows:

Self Motivation
Becoming an entrepreneur is a tough ball game. A person needs to get motivated intrinsically. There are no extrinsic factors to get you going in order to become an entrepreneur. You have to have a zeal for achieving success.

Self Fulfillment
A business or a project of your own is something that should make your proud of yourself and you ways of living. It is a sense of freedom that should come from an inner sense of love for your job.

Freedom
An entrepreneur is a free spirit who does not prefer the nine-to-five grind. He would any day toss the boss out for something more meaningful and happening like his own business. He is the one who can shoulder immense responsibilities and gets the credit at work if everything runs well and also take the blame if his endeavour fails in any way. There is no one to share the blame or fate in that case. He has his own different mindset for all that.

Creativity
The aspiring entrepreneur has a creative bent of mind. He always thinks of new ways of marketing and also comes up with new schemes, products, enterprises and services and also researches in to new niche markets to target.

A romantic realist
An entrepreneur is not only confident of selling his services or products to people but he is much of a romantic realist because of his confidence of being able to sell to the people.

Sales and marketing
These traits are very important for the entrepreneur and he should be able to think out of the box in those lines. For all these he needs to be a lateral line thinker who also has a vision.

Vision
It is very important for the entrepreneur to be a visionary too. He should extend his vision beyond and learn to think far and wide so that he can look well into the future of the business too. Thus the willingness to market and sell the business to the customers and being able to think about the correct marketing and selling methods depending on the market, is imperative to becoming an entrepreneur.

Choosing your favourite kind of business you have to start thinking about the basic techniques of selling easily. The online presence of the business is also a product or tool of clear lateral thinking on the part of the entrepreneur. He should be able to think of creating an attractive and dynamic website. Even if the entrepreneur is keen of having a one person business from home or even a bricks and mortar office, the marketing of his products or services online is very important.

Maintaining blogs, setting up a proper online presence through that, having a newsletter and also proper online marketing ideas are all results of thinking in proper lines for the success of a business, on the part of the entrepreneur.

It is more of common sense, with a good share of ones intuition marketing and emotional intelligence, a great dash of creativity and ones intellect that goes in the making of a great entrepreneur, after all.