Melissa Stanger, Business Insider
RICHARD
Branson founded Virgin in 1970 at the age of 20, and he hasn’t looked back.
17 September 2012
He’s the only entrepreneur to have built eight separate billion-dollar companies in eight
different industries—and he did it all without a degree in business.
“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,” he writes in his new book, Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School.
“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,” he writes in his new book, Like a Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School.
We’ve compiled some of the best tips from his book
here.
Don’t do it if you don’t enjoy it
Running a business takes a lot of blood, sweat, and
tears (and caffeine). But at the end of the day, you should be building
something you will be proud of.
Branson says, “When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy.
“I didn’t set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.”
Branson says, “When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy.
“I didn’t set out to build a business empire ... For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that's going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.”
