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I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience it is just a learning curve.

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.
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Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.
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People flourish if they’re praised.
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It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.
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We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.
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I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.
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Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!
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We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...
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However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.
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Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours
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Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
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I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken.
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To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!
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Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.
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The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.
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I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.
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Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.
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If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.
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