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You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
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Entrepreneur
Film Producer
High School Teacher
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.
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Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, No, to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.
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What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
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One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.
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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 think I've learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that's about all you need for a home.
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We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.
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I find it very difficult to think of mistakes not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.
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If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
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When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.
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A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
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If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.
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Setting customer expectations at a level that is aligned with consistently deliverable levels of customer service requires that your whole staff, from product development to marketing, works in harmony with your brand image.
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I know enough to know that no man is an island.
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Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.
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Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.
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And if after all this you eventually fail don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.
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We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.
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