Richard Branson: How to be Bold, Brave and brilliant.
Richard branson is an inspiration to many, the champion of customers and hero of many buisness people. The virgin founder is a maverick entrepreneur and hippy billionaire, adventurer and philanthropist. He is always looking for new ways to do more for people, and to create a better world.
Richard branson Early life
Branson was born in blackhealth, London, to eve branson, a former ballet dancer and air hostess, and Edward james branson(1918-2011), a barrister. He has two younger sister. His grandfather, Sir george Arthur harwin branson, was a judge of the high court of justice and a privy councillor.
His third great-grandfather, john edward james branson, left england for india in 1793; John Edward's father, harry wilkins branson, later joined him in madras. from 1793; four generations of his family was at cuddalore. on the show finding your roots, branson was shown to have 3.9% south asian[indian]DNA, likely through intermarriage. later, he claimed that one of his great-grandmothers was an indian named Ariya.
Branson was educated at scaitcliffe school, a prepschool in surrey, before briefly attending cliff view house school in sussex. he attended stoweschool, an independent school in buckinghamshire until the age of sixteen.
Branson has dyslexia, and had poor academic performance; on his last day at school his headmaster, Robert Drayson told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. Branson's parents were supportive of his endeavours from an early age. His mother was an entrepreneur; one of her most successful ventures was building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins. In london, he started off squatting from 1967 to 1968.
Early buisness career
After failed attempts to grow and sell both christmas trees and budgerigars, Branson launched a magazine named student in 1966. The first issue of student appeared in january 1968, and a year later, Branson's net worth was estimated at euro 50,000. Through not initially as successful as he hoped, the magazine later became a vital component of the mail-order record buisness branson started from the same church he used for student. Branson used the magazine to advertise popular albums, driving his record sales. he interviewed several prominent personalities of the late 1960s for the magazine including mick jagger and R.D Laing.
His buisness sold records for considerably less than the '' high street'' outlets, especially the chain WH smith. Branson once said, '' there is no point in starting your own buisness unless you do it out of a sense of frustration. At the time, many products were sold under restrictive marketing agreements that limited discounting, despite efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to limit retail price maintenance.
Branson eventually started a record shop in oxford street in london. In 1971, he was questioned in connection with the selling of records that had been declared export stock. The matter was never brought before a court because branson agreed to repay any unpaid purchase tax of 33% and a euro 70,000 fine. his parents re-mortgaged the family home to help pay the settlement.
Famous quotes from Richard Branson
1. Buisness opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
2. you don't learn to walk by following rules. you learn by doing, and by falling over.
3.A buisness has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
4. one thing is certain in buisness. you and everyone around you will make mistakes
5. I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me.that has definitely transformed my life.
5 Amazing lessons we learned from sir Richard Branson
1. Enjoy what you do
2. The first step to bieng a good leader is actually liking people
3. chart your own path by not copying or following
4.try to think laterally
5. savvy is more important than formal Education
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