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When people screw up, give them a second chance.
Richard Branson
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Richard Branson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: July 18
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Sir Richard Branson
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
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There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.
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Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.
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Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.
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Past failures unlock future successes
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Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.
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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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If you run your business fairly if you treat people well if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.
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In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
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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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When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.
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Sometimes miracles come in pairs.
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And if after all this you eventually fail don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again.
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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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Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.
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I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it don't regret them.
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Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.
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I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.
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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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Bakers bake bread, accountants manage accounts and entrepreneurs turn ideas into reality.
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It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.
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