I leave you the best quotes from Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin, a group with more than 360 companies, including Virgin Active, Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Balloon Flights, Virgin Books, Virgin Interactive, Virgin Mobile or Virgin Money.
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-Don't be ashamed of your failures, learn from them and start over.
-If you don't dream, you won't achieve anything.
-A business is simply an idea to improve the lives of other people.
-The brave may not live forever, but the cautious does not live at all.
-You can only live once. And I don't want to waste a minute of my life.
-There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than to follow your passions.
-Business opportunities are like buses, there is always another one coming.
-In business, as in life, what matters is doing something positive.
-You don't learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing and falling.
-The time to enter a new business is when it is poorly managed by others.
-The best way to learn something is by doing.
-Take the competition seriously, but not yourself.
-One thing is for sure in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
-The detail is very important.
-The best motto to follow: nothing risky, nothing earned.
-Train people well enough that they can leave, treat them well enough that they want to stay.
-If someone offers you an incredible opportunity, but you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it.
-Listens. Take the best. Leave the rest.
-Having a personality to care about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you like people in general. That's the way to get the best out of them.
-If you look at the best of our employees, they will flourish. If we criticize or look at the worst, they will wither away. We all need a lot of watering.
-Involve your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.
-A business can be started with very little money.
-I have always looked at my businesses, not as money-making machines, but as adventures.
- Luck favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you are.
-How thin is the line between genius and madness, and between determination and stubbornness.
-Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
-Entrepreneurship consists of turning what excites you in life into capital.
-I don't think of work as work and play as play. Everything is life.
-Balloons only have one life and the only way to know if they work is to try to fly around the world.
-Launching yourself into a job you enjoy is one of life's great pleasures.
-A business has to involve, it has to be fun and it has to exercise creative instincts.
-My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day.
-Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can do something complicated. It's hard to keep things simple.
-Only a fool never changes his mind.
-Good brands reflect the history of the time and the group of people who made them. They cannot be copied. They cannot be recycled.
-Life is much more fun if you say yes instead of saying no.
-I can honestly say that I have never been involved in a business just to make money.
-If the only reason you do business is money, then you better not even do it.
-Get the idea. Each business operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to have a successful company.
-What works once may not work again. What everyone tells you is not going to work may work. No rules.
-It is by falling that you learn not to protect yourself from further falls.
-Just as I get an idea of people 30 seconds after meeting them, I also get an idea of whether a business proposal excites me or not after 30 seconds.
-I trust my instincts more than statistics.
- Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
-To be successful, you have to go out, you have to hit the ground running.
-There have been times when I could have succumbed to a bribe or when I could have been the person offering it.
-My parents always reminded me that all you have in life is reputation: you may be rich but if you have lost your reputation, you will never be happy.
-I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.
-As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up feeling stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.
-Most of the necessary evils are more evil than necessary.
-Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been the key to everything I have done and the results I have obtained.
-I am aware that the idea that business is a fun and creative affair goes against the conventions. Certainly this is what they teach us in business schools.
-The best lesson I've learned is to do it. It doesn't matter what it is or how difficult it may be to achieve it. As the Greek Plato said "the principle is the most important part of any job."
-No matter what your goal is, you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and start flying.
-Listen, it makes you look smarter.
- "If only we had the power to see ourselves in the way others see us." Of all the mantras one can adopt in life, this is without a doubt one of the best.
-I don't think it can be learned as if it were a recipe. There are no ingredients or techniques that can guarantee success.
-There are parameters that, if followed, can ensure business continuity, but it is not possible to define the cause of the success of a business and bottle it as if it were a perfume.
-If you have a good team around you and a little more than luck, you can make things happen.
-Success cannot be guaranteed by following someone else's formula.
-Business is a fluid, a changing substance.
-Capitalism works. However, those who make money from it should give it back to society, not just sit on it like people hatching eggs.
-You are guaranteed to lose every opportunity you don't take.
-Things difficult to win are more valuable than those that come easily.
-Live for the present - I hear the maxim of my parents in my head - and the future will come by itself.
-For those who think that business exists to make a profit, I suggest you think again.
-I think listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, businessman or, well, anyone with a pulse.
- To hell, let's do it.
-It is much better, when possible, to try to forgive those who offend us and give them a second chance, just as my father and mother often did when I was a child.
-Remember, it is not material things that matter in life. Things are not important, people are. What matters is that everyone is safe.
-They always pushed me to see the good in people instead of assuming the worst of all and looking for faults.
-Listen more than you talk. Nobody learns anything by listening to himself speak.
-If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong. If you feel like waking up in the morning and working is nothing more than a chore, then it's time for you to try something else.
-Great leaders are almost always simplifiers who can end arguments, debates and doubts by offering a solution that everyone can understand.
-Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of reaching it with a well-preserved body.
-Developing mental strength is not just being resilient. It's about going to your reserve tank when you think you can't move on.
-Hard work and fun are the two things that life revolves around. As soon as things stop being fun, it's the signal that you need to keep moving forward.
-Evil, evil, do not have the last word. It is kindness, laughter, joy, care, and compassion that have the final decision.
-As long as you continue in your career, your efforts may meet with failure. Don't be discouraged, one of the best ways to learn something is by making mistakes.
-It took time and a lot of mistakes for me to achieve achievements.
-The way to become a good leader is to look for the best in people. Rarely criticize, always praise.