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Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Balloonist
Business Magnate
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Entrepreneur
Film Producer
High School Teacher
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That's the only way you'll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will.
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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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Learn to live on the edge.
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There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.
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Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.
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The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
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I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's Tubular Bells [Virgin Records' first release] sold 8 or 10 million copies, I suppose, at age 19, I could've possibly retired on the money. Instead, I immediately pushed the boat and took that risk again.
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I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.
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Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!
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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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To be a great leader, you must be a great listener
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As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.
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If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
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The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
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In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
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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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Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.
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It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.
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I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.
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A business can be started with very little money.
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