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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
Aircraft Pilot
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.
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Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
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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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Whether you are launching a start-up or leading an established company, you should start establishing your social media presence if you haven’t already.
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I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.
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You need lucky breaks to be successful.
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I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.
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People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.
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Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
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Seek out strategic alliances they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.
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I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?
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It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.
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Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business
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Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!
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There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have
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In the beginning it was just about the business - now it's about the brand.
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A business can be started with very little money.
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Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.
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I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.
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