Abstract
This article investigated the role dispositional optimism plays in entrepreneurial success. An examination of the existing entrepreneurial literature over a 25-year period indicates that dispositional optimism—the global expectation that good things will be plentiful in the future and bad things scarce—is correlated to entrepreneurial success and that dispositional optimism is a defining characteristic of entrepreneurs. It appears that dispositional optimism training may just be what the doctor ordered to improve the success rates of entrepreneurial ventures and to ensure the future of entrepreneurship.
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