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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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I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.
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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
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Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.
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As we drifted to earth I sat up on the glass roof of the capsule, watching the beauty of the golden dawn as it broke over the desert. This was a day I never thought I'd see and the rising sun and growing warmth of the day seemed very precious. It made me aware that hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily. It reminded me to always enjoy the moment.
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The talents of young people must not be stifled. Education is not just about getting the right grades in exams but it should encourage all students to develop their optimum capacity, whatever that may be. Schools and colleges should prepare young people for life.
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Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.
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I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.
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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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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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I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
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Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.
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If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.
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To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.
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However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.
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Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.
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July 18, 1950
(age 73)
Bio:
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies.
Known for:
Losing My Virginity (1998)
Screw It, Let's Do It (2006)
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