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Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.
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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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Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.
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When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives.
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It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.
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I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.
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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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Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
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Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.
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Every aspect of life is magnificent and wonderful. It's so important to keep fit and healthy.
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Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.
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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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