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Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.
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We all know about the big world conflicts: Israel and Palestine, Zimbabwe, and so on. But there are smaller conflicts that aren't even on the world's radar screen most of the world has no idea that Ethiopia invaded Somalia a year ago. It makes sense for the Elders to sit down with both sides and see whether leaders can come to an understanding.
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My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new.
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Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code
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The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.
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The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.
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Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.
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One day offices will be a thing of the past
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Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.
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I find it very difficult to think of mistakes not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.
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I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.
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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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I'm not the sort of person who fears failure.
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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.
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It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.
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I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by sayings no.
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I don't live my life thinking about if only. I just try to think positively about the future. We'll never know for certain what would have happened if we'd gone to Iraq. The important thing is that we've got to do everything we can to prevent other wars.
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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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Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.
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Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
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