Richard Branson Quotes

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I was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.

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If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

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Brands always mean something. If you don't define what the brand means, your competitors will

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The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

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I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

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Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

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Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

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What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.

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The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers

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I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

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Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

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Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.

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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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Most people assume that a record shop's success lies in selling records. In fact, Virgin's success both in mail order and the record shops lay in skill at buying records.

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The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

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In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

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My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

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What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

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Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

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I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.

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If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

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Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

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Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

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The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

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I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

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Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

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People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

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The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

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It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

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