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Taking Bold Climate Action Now Has The Potential To Unleash The Full Power Of Business And At The Same Time Lift Millions Of People Out Of Poverty. We're The First Generation To Recognize This And The Last Generation That Will Have This Opportunity.

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Taking Bold Climate Action

Richard Branson

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Taking Bold Climate Action Now Has The Potential To Unleash The Full Power Of Business And At The Same Time Lift Millions Of People Out Of Poverty. We're The First Generation To Recognize This And The Last Generation That Will Have This Opportunity.

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Run Lean; Avoid Unnecessary Expenses.

I Just Love Life. I Mean, You Know, I Love Every Second Of It. I Love People.

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I Think It's Quite Great To Set Yourself A Big Challenge And Then You've Got Another Reason For Keeping Fit.

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One Key To Entrepreneurial Success Is To Get A Great Group Of People Around You Who Believe In Your Idea.

Perhaps My Early Problems With Dyslexia Made Me More Intuitive: When Someone Sends Me A Written Proposal, Rather Than Dwelling On Detailed Facts And Figures I Find That My Imagination Grasps And Expands On What I Read.

Learn To Use Your Brain Power. Critical Thinking Is The Key To Creative Problem Solving In Business.

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The Most Important Thing For Entrepreneurs Is Not To Be Put Off By Failure.

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You Don't Learn To Walk By Following Rules. You Learn By Doing, And By Falling Over.

If I'm Setting Up A New Business I'll Spend Three Or Four Months Learning Everything There Is About That Business, Everything There Is About That Subject And Then I Will Find Good People To Run It On A Day-to-day Basis, But Whilst They're Running It At Least I Know What They're Talking About When They Come Back To Me.

A Business Can Be Started With Very Little Money.

Well, I Think That There's A Very Thin Dividing Line Between Success And Failure. And I Think If You Start A Business Without Financial Backing, You're Likely To Go The Wrong Side Of That Dividing Line.

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The Quality Of Business Communications Has Become Poorer In Recent Years As People Avoid Phone Calls And Face-to-face Meetings, I Can Only Assume, In Some Misguided Quest For Efficiency.

Money Is For Making Things Happen.

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