We had the chance to ask Sir Richard Branson a question at a \u2018Mentor Me Branson\u2019 event held at Newcastle University in March 2015.<\/p>\n
Katie\u00a0Wray asked the panel: \u2018do you think any type of person can be entrepreneurial?\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n After\u00a0Jimmy Cregan<\/a> and Sir Brian Souter<\/a>\u00a0answered here’s what Sir Richard Branson<\/a> said:<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SlPd1i5cGHE&feature=youtu.be&t=21m36s<\/p>\n I’ll try to be a bit more controversial. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0 So I think most people ought to be able to become entrepreneurs, if they put their mind to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We love this answer and will be exploring the\u00a0theme of “enterpreneurial mindsets” further in the early stages of our \u00a0Enterprise Shed: Making Ideas Happen<\/a>\u00a0course.<\/p>\n Katie Wray (Lecturer in Enterprise) is the lead educator for the four week course starting early in 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had the chance to ask Sir Richard Branson a question at a \u2018Mentor Me Branson\u2019 event held at Newcastle University in March 2015. Katie\u00a0Wray asked the panel: \u2018do you think any type of person can be entrepreneurial?\u2019 After\u00a0Jimmy Cregan and Sir Brian Souter\u00a0answered here’s what Sir Richard Branson said: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SlPd1i5cGHE&feature=youtu.be&t=21m36s I’ll try to be … <\/p>\n