Small businesses and entrepreneurs must take chances and risk getting into debt if they want to succeed, according to research from the Abbey.
The group say that half of the business owners questioned, said they considered themselves to be risk takers, with many of them having to take on large loans for start up capital.
Just over 75% of entrepreneurs asked also said that the risk they'd taken in setting up their business had been a good decision and that they'd experienced at least some success.