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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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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Balloonist
Business Magnate
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Film Producer
High School Teacher
Investor
Sir Richard Branson
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.
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We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.
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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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When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.
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The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.
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We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.
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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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Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.
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Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
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Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.
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Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.
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We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.
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About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.
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Talent comes from experience and failure
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Seek out strategic alliances they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.
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The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.
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I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
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A business can be started with very little money.
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In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.
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