Richard Branson: How A Dyslexic Drop-out Built A Billion Dollar Empire

do you think about is it selfish, is it worth it, is it something? So um Uh Sir Richard Branson! Richard Branson is one of the most fun-loving and adventurous billionaires in the world. He's conquered our scars, blast it off into space. The entrepreneur's entrepreneur, the marketer's marketer. The school of business. They said focus.

By the age of thirty three, you've got fifty different companies. You kind of break that law, it seems. If we'd stayed still and only focused on one business, we wouldn't have a business today if we were still going strong fifty-five years later. If you get the little details right, makes for an exceptional company over an average company. We were the first airline to introduce seatback videos in the world. Sleeper seats. for business class passengers. We've always been ahead of the pack. The airline's been bullied by British Airways famously through the Dirty Tricks campaign. The best always succeeds. It's a All of that you'd done before wasn't enough, you decided to aim for the stars.

We're going to space. looking back at this beautiful, beautiful earth that we live on whilst floating. It was a dream come true. You know, we're still at the early stage of space travel, and there's still risks. Everything that we'd built up.

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