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Management Quotes by Richard Branson
- Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing…
- Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing
- A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense
- We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
- For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility
- I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world
- The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me
- I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve
- Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand,…
- 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…
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