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The studies conducted revealed that successful entrepreneurs have some inner qualities such as technical competence, initiative, good judgment, intelligence, leadership qualities, self-confidence, energy, attitude, creativeness, fairness, honesty, tactfulness, emotional ability, vision and foresight, ability to marshal resources, imitating character, mobility nature etc. To look in to these, an attempt is made to focus on the quality or strength possessed by the entrepreneurs and the relationship between quality and parental occupation. The paper is based on the primary data collected from 50 entrepreneurs functioning in industrial estates of Shivamogga district. The study set two null and alternate hypotheses which are tested by using chi-square test for each of the background. The calculations to see the degree of relationship at 5% significance level for each of the background revealed that the calculated value for agriculture background and entrepreneurial quality is 4.14, for business background it is 3.98 and for service background it is 4.56 as against the table value of 36.4. Thus, it is revealed that the calculated value at 5 % significance level for each background is less than the table value hence the calculations support the null hypothesis that there is no significant relationship between parental occupation and personality trait or quality of entrepreneurs.