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“When you change your mind, it just shows that now you have got some new information and because of that new information, now your current understanding of the issue has changed and that’s why you now think differently.”

“Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs To the dreamers, the builders, the risk-takers – the small business owners and entrepreneurs everywhere. You pour your heart and soul into your vision, face down challenges that most can't fathom, and you keep moving forward with grit and determination, providing for your family, creating opportunities for others and shaping our communities. Even when most do not understand or appreciate the difficult and often lonely path you are on.”

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. For from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.”

“Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.”

“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.”

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

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

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.”

“Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.”

“Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

“You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.”

“Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.”

“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.”

“Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.”