Richard Branson Quotes - Page 25

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• If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.

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  Motivation, Ideas, Differences

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• If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

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  Running, People, Driving

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• Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.

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  Eye, World, Way

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2014

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• However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.

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  Opportunity, People, Choices

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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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  Up To You, Want, Cows

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.79, Random House

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• ... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

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  People, Priorities, Benefits

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• I'm not the sort of person who fears failure.

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  Persons

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• The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.

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  Differences, People, Entrepreneur

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• Entrepreneursh ip is not about getting one over on the customer. It’s not about working on your own. It’s not about looking out for number one. It’s not necessarily about making a lot of money. It is absolutely not about letting work take over your life. On the contrary, it’s about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

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  Moving, Numbers, Over You

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

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  Real, Entrepreneur, Competition

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• Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

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  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

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  Entrepreneur, Important, Important Things

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• I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

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  Stars, Regret, Lucky

  Interview with Nina Myskow for Saga magazine, July 2007.

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• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

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  Running, Business, School

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• I think that you're going to get so much more out of life if you just say yes at every opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Ifs

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• We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

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  Future, Moon, Orbit

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• Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

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  Dream, Risk, Impossible

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• What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside.

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  Tumbling Down, House, Decision

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• Look for the best in people to build a fantastic team

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  Team, People, Self Improvement

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• Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

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  Successful, Growth, Doe

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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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  Challenges, Mind, Needs

  Richard Branson (1998). “Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way”, Crown Pub

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• I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.

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  Thinking, Managers

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• It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.

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  Order, Mind, Important

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• Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

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  Powerful, Doing Nothing, Making Money

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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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  Good Man, Mentoring, Believer

  Sir Richard Branson (2014). “The Virgin Way: How to Listen, Learn, Laugh and Lead”, p.160, Random House

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