Richard Branson Quotes

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

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You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business.

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I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.

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

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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 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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Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

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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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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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Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the boss!' What irks me is that in 90% of such instances what that person is really saying is, 'OK, then, I don't agree with you, but I'll roll over and do it because you're telling me to. But if it doesn't work out I'll be the first to remind everyone that it wasn't my idea.'

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I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

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

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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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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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When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

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To be associated with industry no longer carries the stigma of profiteering, exploitation and of being uncaring as it did when I was at school.

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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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I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

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I became an entrepreneur by mistake. Ever since then I've gone into business, not to make money, but because I think I can do it better than it's been done elsewhere. And, quite often, just out of personal frustration about the way it's been done by other people.

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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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