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Management gems from Richard Branson
October 3, 2008
'I wanted to be an editor or a journalist'
If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
Image: Branson atop a buggy in front of the Gateway of India in Mumbai, along with four airhostesses of Virgin Atlantic Airways. | Rediff.com file photograph
Also read: Reliance to supply 40% of India's gas, oil!
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