Losing my virginity by Richard Branson

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‘Nothing ventured; nothing gained'

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I finished reading this book in the summer. I found it highly inspirational. The story itself is not as important as the message it tries to get across.

By reading stories of successful entrepreneurs you could learn a lot and if you look to them for guidance, you also could avoid a lot of future mistakes.

If one day I will forget anything what was written in this book I won’t forget this particular message:

“Whenever is your business in trouble or there is a crisis, always look for ways to expand, do never contract.”

I truly admire Richard Branson. I was born with dyslexia and there are plenty of successful entrepreneurs who have it, including Branson. Dyslexia makes it hard for you to learn certain things in school. In my case I was discouraged by some of my teachers to learn languages as it “was not so straightforward for me” and I was considered a be a dumb kid. But I never paid much attention to their discouragement and found ways how to get around it. Nowadays, I speak foreign languages better than they do (of course except of the native speakers). I slowly learned that dyslexia is actually a blessing. Because your brain does not work in the same way as brains of the ordinary work. Richard Branson is a great example of that.

The story of Richard Branson is just amazing and I do not think it would have made sense to rant about it. If you are interested then fucking read it!

Favorite quotes:

“Little do they know that often these IQ tests have been dreamt up by academics who are absolutely useless at dealing with the practicalities of the outside world.”

“Every successful businessman has failed at some ventures, and most entrepreneurs who run their own companies have been declared bankrupt at least once.”

“Even though I’m often asked to define my ‘business philosophy’, I generally won’t do so, because I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe.”

“Business is a fluid, changing substance, and, as far as I’m concerned, the group will never stand still. It has always been a mutating, indefinable thing and the past few years have demonstrated that.”

Richard Branson on flying a hot air ballon over the Atlantic Ocean:

“Now, even though we’re here, I can still abort this project if I think it’s too dangerous or if you develop health problems.’

‘Does that include mental-health problems?’ I joked.

‘No,’ Tom said. ‘That’s a prerequisite for doing this flight.”

“Dalai Lama: “If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause others to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

“Those others are watching for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding and for assurance at this hour. Most of all – they are looking to you for love.”

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Coming up next:

Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

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