What does it take to become a successful businessperson?

Bill Gates

• IBM – First worked for, but wanted to be “bigger than IBM”

• Apple – Used the WYSIWYG scheme developed by Steve Jobs

• Microsoft – buys out opposition or undercuts them till they fold

Richard Dyson

• Full time inventor• Patented wheelbarrow

that used a ball, not a wheel (less friction)

• Patented a new vacuum design which was then copied in USA

• He successfully sued even though they tried to bankrupt him by dragging out the case

Richard Branson

• Hated school; left at 16 (dyslexic)

• Set up “Student” magazine

• Sold records by mail order through it

• Set up “Virgin” • Music, Ballooning, Skiing,

Spaceship!• “A business has to be

involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts”.