We had the chance to ask Sir Richard Branson a question at a ‘Mentor Me Branson’ event held at Newcastle University in March 2015.
Katie Wray asked the panel: ‘do you think any type of person can be entrepreneurial?’
After Jimmy Cregan and Sir Brian Souter answered here’s what Sir Richard Branson said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlPd1i5cGHE&feature=youtu.be&t=21m36s
I’ll try to be a bit more controversial. I think that if you have got an idea that can make other people’s lives better, but you think I’m not necessarily entrepreneurially bent, I would say just forget that thinking and just try it. And I do think that, most people, if they try it, they’ll learn about it, and they may not become a serial entrepreneur, which is not necessarily a good thing, they may just want to specialise in that one thing that they have got a passion for. So I think most people ought to be able to become entrepreneurs, if they put their mind to it.
We love this answer and will be exploring the theme of “enterpreneurial mindsets” further in the early stages of our Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen course.
Katie Wray (Lecturer in Enterprise) is the lead educator for the four week course starting early in 2016.