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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity."

― Richard Branson

"Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so."

― Richard Branson

"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."

― Richard Branson

"We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."

― Richard Branson

"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."

― Richard Branson

"If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."

― Richard Branson

"My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around."

― Richard Branson

"Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way."

― Richard Branson

"Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming."

― Richard Branson

"One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes."

― Richard Branson

"Vision, guts and enthusiasm. Three qualities I feel you always gotta have to have a shot at success."

― Dwayne Johnson

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

― Theodore Roosevelt

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured."

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