Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
Richard BransonRead
Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.
Interpretation
Express your enthusiasm and beliefs in a clear and heartfelt way.
This quote emphasizes the importance of clear and passionate communication in conveying one's ideas and beliefs. Richard Branson suggests that effective communication should not only be concise but also infused with genuine conviction, which enhances understanding and connection with the audience.
In practice
In a business presentation to convey enthusiasm for a new product.
Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.
It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.
Please donβt get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.
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.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?
The art of conversation lies in listening.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.
Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.
We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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