1. Look through the sentences and decide which of them are True(t), False (f) or Not Stated (n).

1. To have enough money is the key to small business success.

2. Success and wealth are not the same things.

3. A businessman doesn`t have to love what you`re doing, it is enough to be a professional.

4. Experience is as much important as education.

5. The teamwork is built around these notions: internal, external team and connections.

6. People may fail, but money are always on the top.

7. Good mangers are always creative.

8. To be in a potential lucrative business is one of the factors of success.

9. Documents` contents and information must be kept in the businessman`s head.

10. One of the factors of success is your flexibility.

2. Try to remember the main idea of the text and put the sentences into the correct order.

1. People can be irreplacable.

2. A business should respond to the market.

3. Asking for the long answer is the good thing to do.

4. Experience must prevail over education.

5. The ability to create is given not to evetybody.

6. To be in love with your business is of the primary importance.

7. Information is to be kept in order.

8. Education and experiencee are crucial.

9. Choose the upstream industry.

10. Today connections mean a lot.

3. Find the words from the text according to their definitions.

1. pieces of paper containing official information;

2. not good enough;

3. someone who starts their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity;

4. taking possession of an asset by purchase;

5. a substance or product that can be traded, bought or sold;

6. necessary for the success or continued existence of something; extremely important;

7. to defeat or succeed in controlling or dealing with something

8. excellent; clearly very much better than what is usual;

9. to know about something before it happens;

10. a group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task, job, or project.

4. Fill in the gaps using the word-combinations from the text.

(working capital, the other side of the coin, internal team, balance sheet, external team, critical element, creative bone, through-and-through, to rely on, hide-bound)

1. Jake has collected the (….) and soon will set up his own business.

2. People who have a (….) usually work everywhere but for the R&D department.

3. The (….) in this kind of job is the approval of the Chief.

4. He has tried once to get a steady job but he is a musician (….) and can`t do anything about it.

5. When a person has been sacked there`s noone (….).

6. Firstly I thought this position is great, but than I saw (….) and decided to quit.

7. Our (….) works fine: everything is delivered in time.

8. The fake (….) was lying on the table and the genuine one was hidden in the financier`s pocket.

9. The President has congratulated the whole our (….) and we has all been invited to the dinner.

10. My colleague has always been headstrong and stubborn, he has always been having his own unchangable opinion on everything, he was (….).