Richard Branson - Business Quotes

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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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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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When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business empire... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people's lives

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By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

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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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Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

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I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

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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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One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

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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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Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

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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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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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Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.

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

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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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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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