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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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If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.
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Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
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When people screw up, give them a second chance.
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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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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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Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.
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Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized
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To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.
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What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
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I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes. I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go.
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I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.
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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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Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
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If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.
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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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Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.
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As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.
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Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours
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The brand is only as good as your products, so.. if people have a good experience on Virgin Atlantic or if they have a good experience on Virgin trains or.. if they have a Virgin mobile phone and they can get straight through to our people and they're well looked after and then they'll try the next product that we launch.
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