The purpose of this study is to examine the direct effect of five key entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions; risk taking, innovativeness, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness, and autonomy on Egyptian family businesses. The targeted population of interest is family businesses in Egypt; all the 71 family firms are registered on the Egyptian stock exchange from 2017-2021 were approached. Several (187) questionnaires have been collected from family members in Egyptian family businesses. Data are analyzed by using structural equation model. The findings of this study showed that only some of the EO dimensions are crucial for performance, is the most important of which is the competitive aggressiveness dimension, then autonomy, risk-taking, proactiveness, and finally, innovativeness dimension, which had the least impact on performance.