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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.
- Richard Branson
#Better
#Business
#Day
#Mission
#People
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Doing
#Failure
#Proud
#Success
All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Important
#Reputation
#Your
From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.
- Richard Branson
#Age
#Focus
#Good
#Me
#People
Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait.
- Richard Branson
#Day
#Heart
#Memories
#Morning
#Time
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Consumer
#I Can
#See
#Start
By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.
- Richard Branson
#Customer
#End
#First
#In The End
#Well
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
- Richard Branson
#Challenges
#Life
#Myself
#Rise
#Trying
When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.
- Richard Branson
#Age
#Car
#Home
#Independence
#Value
Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
- Richard Branson
#Family
#Happiness
#Me
#Opportunity
#Path
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
- Richard Branson
#Chance
#Friend
#Say
#Seriously
#Turn
To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Ideas
#Me
#True
#Yourself
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
- Richard Branson
#Alone
#Music
#Name
#Real
#Stage
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
- Richard Branson
#Freedom
#Life
#Love
#Me
#My Life
I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.
- Richard Branson
#Forgiveness
#Freedom
#Strength
#Time
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
- Richard Branson
#Birds
#Business
#Christmas
#Early
#Trees
Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing to do for people and the planet. Setting a net-zero GHG emissions target by 2050 will drive innovation, grow jobs, build prosperity, and secure a better world for what will soon be 9 billion people.
- Richard Branson
#Action
#Business
#Change
#Good
#Grow
#World
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
- Richard Branson
#Failure
#Learning
#Stop
#Success
#Treat
#Try
Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
- Richard Branson
#Important
#Material Things
#Things
We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.
- Richard Branson
#Better
#Earth
#Live
#Look
#Space
#Travel
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Failure
#Finance
#Go
#Success
Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.
- Richard Branson
#Experience
#Impossible
#Me
#Space
#Stars
On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!
- Richard Branson
#Days
#End
#Prison
#Right
#School
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Creative
#Exercise
#Fun
#Instincts
#Your
Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.
- Richard Branson
#Fun
#Important
#Time
#Try
#Underrated
Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
- Richard Branson
#Business
#Fear
#Hard Work
#Success
#Work
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
- Richard Branson
#Being
#Critical
#Good
#Line
#People
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
- Richard Branson
#Believe
#Dictatorship
#I Am
#I Believe
Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.
- Richard Branson
#Money
#Opinion
#People
#Success
#True
I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.
- Richard Branson
#Clean
#Energy
#Renewable Energy
#Solar
If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
- Richard Branson
#Launch
#Millionaire
#New
#Start
#Want
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
- Richard Branson
#Always
#Another
#Business
#Coming
#Like
My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
- Richard Branson
#Attitude
#Face
#Fall
#Moving Forward
#Up
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
- Richard Branson
#Attitude
#Day
#God
#Life
#Today
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
- Richard Branson
#Doing
#Falling
#Learning
#Rules
#Walk
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Richard Branson
#Embarrassed
#Failure
#Learn
#Start
#Your
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