Occupation: Business Magnate Birth: July 18, 1950
If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you.
Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing,….
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed ….
I have learnt more from my failures than my successes..
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change..
Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives..
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?.
You've got one go in life, so make the most of it..
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and ….
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated….
I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "….
I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this at….
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning….
I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through..
If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together a….
There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view.
If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen..
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely….
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 ….
I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola..
Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true..