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718 Investor Quotes

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

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There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to other people's lives. So if you've got an idea that's gonna make a big difference to other people's lives, then just get on and do it.

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Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

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It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

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I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people's lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

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Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

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A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?

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Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.

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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

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From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

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An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the front line, they know when things are not going right, and they know when things need to be improved. And if you listen to them, you can soon improve all those niggly things which turns an average company into an exceptional company.

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Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

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Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

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It's rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

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Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

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By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the shareholder comes first by default as well.

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If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

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Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

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Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind - the product wasn't distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

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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.

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I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

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Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

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When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything in rather than just rushing around to all of the major tourist haunts.

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A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.

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The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

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Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

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A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.

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I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

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It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.

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The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

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It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

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If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.
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What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

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We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

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We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

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What's dangerous is not to evolve.

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There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

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Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

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What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.

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