Family businesses were once crafts which were inherited, and today most family businesses located in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises. Every family enterprise has a number of tasks before them, and the most important is to align the family, property and business. In family enterprises is a major role has the process of succession of the business. Family entrepreneurship represents a great potential for growth and development of the economy and economic advancement in Croatia. Also family entrepreneurship has the ability to boost employment, the competition on the markets and the impact on the reduction of certain shortcomings on the economic level. The goal of any family company is to expand your business globally and the world market, but some companies thus endangering its survival. The aim of the study was to show how in fact entrepreneurship or family entrepreneurship, has a strong influence on the overall economy in the world, on the economy and further development of the whole economy, how in the world and in Croatia. Also, what are the good and bad side of entry into entrepreneurship, and what opportunities can indicate themselves by entering into entrepreneurship.