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The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Balloonist
Business Magnate
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Producer
High School Teacher
Investor
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.
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Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.
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It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.
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I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this attitude of having fun whilst working hard is one that lends itself very well to successful entrepreneurship.
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Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.
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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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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 will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.
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Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.
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Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it
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The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.
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The best way of learning about anything is by doing.
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Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.
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If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.
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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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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
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I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.
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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 have an idea that's going to make a big difference to people's lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say screw it, do it and get on with it, and give it a go.
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For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.
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