Richard Branson
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Bransonis an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth18 July 1950
CityLondon, England
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British Airways was doing everything they could do to put Virgin Atlantic out of business -- what's become famous here as the dirty tricks campaign, ... We felt that we needed the financial muscle to combat them. And I still had a lot to prove at Virgin Atlantic whereas we proved that we could, you know, build and run a successful record company.
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If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
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Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.
inspirational business people
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
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Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.
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Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
running business wells
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
running business team
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.
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I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world
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I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
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We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.
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Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
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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.
inspirational business people
You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.