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If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
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