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To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.
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It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.
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Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.
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Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.
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When you are starting a business or going down any challenging endeavor, you are bound to encounter challenges. You are going to hit many roadblocks and obstacles. These are obstacles that would make any sane person want to throw in the towel and quit. If you want your business to succeed, you can’t do that (duh).
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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
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Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.
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Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.
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And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.
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If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.
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Embrace a mistake and learn from it don't regret them.
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I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.
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