Mark Zuckerberg

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Describe yourself in five words or less...

These are the few words that I believe describe me:

talkative - I love talking. There isn't much to explain about this one. I'm not very loud, but I constantly talk. Even in elementary school, my teachers would constantly get mad at me for talking too much. I even got sent to face my desk towards the wall so I would stop talking.

self-conscious - I wish I was more confident, but to my dismay I am not. I try to be happy about who I am, but sometimes it's too hard for me. It also depends on my mood, but the majority of the time, I am not happy with myself.

caring - I care about my family and friends. I love them all, and I like to think that I treat them all in a really good way. Sometimes I get in a bad mood, and I might say things that I don't mean, but most people do. It doesn't mean that I don't care about them.

friendly - I'm always trying to welcome new people, and make new friends. I'm a nice person, and I'm not afraid to talk to everyone even if other people don't think they're 'cool'.

hard-worker - I am a very hard worker when I want to be. When it comes to my job, I do the best that I can. In school, I'm not as hard of a worker, but if I exerted myself, I know that I could be.

/Sir/ Richard Branson

In Entrepreneurship 12, we watched the interview of Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin. Here are a list of things that I have learnt.

He has over 360 companies, which include Virgin Mobile, Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and Virgin Trains.


He learnt early on that if you can run one company you can run any company, as long as you can find the right people, and you're constantly drilling out the best in people. He loves to learn, and he sees life as one long learning process.

Branson believes that there is a thin line between success and failure.

The total revenue for Virgin is a bout $25 billion, and there are about 55 thousand employees.

He was dyslexic, had no understanding of school work. He would have failed IQ tests, and he left school when he was 15. If he's not interested in something he just doesn't grasp it. He doesn't know the difference of gross and net sales, even though he has multiple companies. He was the captain of the football, and cricket team. He believes that he was a bit of a rebel, and he was fortunately good at sports.

His mother felt that he should be able to 'stand on his own two feet' by the age of four. His headmaster told him that he was either going to be a millionaire or he was going to go to prison. He did both, and he believed that he went to prison. He was prosecuted for mentioning the word' venereal disease' in public, so he changed it to 'social disease' but then changed it back and got arrested. The police also arrested him for using the word 'bollocks' on The Sex Pistols album.

If you treat people well, people will come back for more. The best way to become a successful business leader is to treat people very well.

He believes that being a father is very important. So when his children went on holidays, he would go with them.

Issues he worries about that he would like to turn his resources towards: Global Warming, trying to find alternative fuels, and extracting carbon from the earth's atmosphere; 'The Wall Room', coordinates all the attacks and social problems that have happened in Africa, trying to look at the best practices.

How to Kill the Entrepreneurial Spirit

"How to Kill the Entrepreneurial Spirit" was an article written by Larry Farrell. It states the problems of producing and then selling a product. The people who make the product don't see the customers who buy it, the customers don't see the people who make it, and they don't know what the item is. The administrators don't see the customers OR the producers, so all they know is what they're told.

Second Post

An experience that I went through that made me more confident, would be when I got my first job. I was sixteen, and I was really nervous. I didn't know what to say when I walked in, and I was afraid that I wouldn't be who they would want to hire. They hired me on the spot, and I felt really proud of myself. Getting this job really boosted my confidence on a few different levels. It helped me to become less shy, and it made me feel like I could do anything if I set my mind to it. I have now been promoted twice in two years, and I have another job.

First post

Today I learnt the outlines for Entrepreneurship 12. This class is the last class of the day, and I don't really know what it's all about. We watched a few video clips and they showed that 'if you believe in yourself, you can do anything'. The teacher also told us a few quotes from people that he knows, and told us about past classes. He mentioned the debt that Canadians and Americans in, and about some of the future debts that Canada most likely will come into. We were told to wrote a blog about our progress in the class, and the teacher will be showing this to our parents.