Listening Exercise: 5 tips for becoming an entrepreneur

5 tips for becoming an entrepreneur

Here’s a thought… Instead of finishing secondary school, going to university, and doing a Masters in Business before even getting any experience in the business world, do what Richard Branson did: leave school at 16, get on with it, and become a billionaire!

That may be “easier said than done”, but England’s most famous entrepreneur is proof that it can be done.

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”
—Richard Branson

Richard Branson’s “Virgin Group” now has more than 200 companies in more than 30 countries, from Virgin Coke to Virgin Galactic — a space tourism company. Having started with nothing, he is now worth an estimated $2.5 billion, and owns two private islands. 

Every entrepreneur should use Branson as inspiration of what can be achieved with the right attitude and entrepreneurial sprit. In today’s listening exercise, he tells us his 5 tips for becoming an entrepreneur. Great advice from and internationally successful entrepreneur England can be proud of.

Listening Exercise:

Fill the blanks, and write your answers in the comments below. We will then reply with the answers!

Questions:

1. A business is simply about creating something that ________ life _________ for other people

2. Make sure you that you _________ them well.

3. Make sure that your product is great ______ ______ _______

4. So you can be really ________ of what you’re doing

5. You’ve got to get out and _______ it.

6. If it means __________ _____ _________ of yourself to get on the front pages of the newspapers

7. Life’s too short to take it too __________

8 I hope one day to buy one of your products, or use one of your __________

9. Sorry, the “Virgin” name’s already _________

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