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Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
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Business Magnate
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Entrepreneur
Film Producer
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Sir Richard Branson
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success
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The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.
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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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Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.
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Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.
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Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, No, to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.
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So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
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So I've seen life as one long learning process.
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I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.
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We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.
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With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.
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Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.
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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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Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.
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What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.
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Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.
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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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India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.
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Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.
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There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.
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