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1217 Philanthropist Quotes

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it's important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

Appointment Business Date Decades
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All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.

Business Important Keep Reputation
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In business, if you realize you've made a bad decision, you change it.

Bad Business Change Decision
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I'm a bit like the Queen in that I don't carry much cash.

Bit Carry Cash Like
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Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the communities and the environment in everything they do?

Businesses Communities Different Different World
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There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn't feel it was safe enough for myself.

Ask Enough Feel Flight
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My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Above Apparently Challenges Huge
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When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.

Anyone Ask Bit Curriculum
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A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

Behind Desk Get Good
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I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Atlantic Balloon Boat Brush
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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.

Again Always Attitude Back
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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.

Big Big Difference Business Difference
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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.

Associate Happy How How Much
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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.

Common Entrepreneur Every Metric
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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.

Able Been Build Business
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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.

Am Assume Because Brought
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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?

All The Difference Anybody Anybody Else Belief
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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.

Any Call Else Fun
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The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Any Art Delegation Entrepreneur
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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.

Age Allowing Businesses Creatively
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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.

Average Company Details Exceptional
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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.

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

Business Job Just 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.

Another Enough Immediately Income
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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.

Absolutely Being Critical Front
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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.

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

Big Big Company Company 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.

Business Commitment Entrepreneurs Fear
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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.

Businesses Businessman Coca-Cola Distinct
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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.

Achieving Again Approach Chances
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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.

Balanced Better Bit Gets
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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.

Been Business Career Conventional
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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.

Build Clients Customer Customer Service
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Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

Delightful Important Material Material Things
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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Birds Breeding Business Christmas
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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.

Across Around Chance Come
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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.

Chance Complaint Customer Friend
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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.

Burger Buy Cost Far
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More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability.

Apple Businesses Encouraging Following
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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.

Better Business Day Entrepreneur
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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.

About Children Consider Fame
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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.

Been Financial I Think People
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Credit Doing Get Great
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Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.
Concentration First Honesty Industry
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Achieve Before Clear Glorious
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Ability Average Average Person Between
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Attention Grow Just Less
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The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Admission Compromise Compromised Contradictory
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And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Because Best Competition Department
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Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Care Duty Future Itself
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