Richard Branson Quotes
When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!
Branson, Richard. Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life. Virgin Books, 2006.
The willingness to fail with a policy or program is very rare amongst politicians and almost nil with government bureaucrats. For the latter the main reason is Congress which pillories the Civil Servants or their and their political bosses for any failure. So nothing innovative gets tried in most administrations. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who went to the people with the intention to try. many different things and would fail with many, was tolerated by a Congress which he dominated and a public that was so desparate as a result of Hoover’s trying nothing to ameliorate the Great Depression that they were willing to accept some failures. And indeed there were a number of failures, some very large and significant. But there were also many successes and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, experiments, failures and all was the most popular President in American history and was elected to 4 terms before his death.
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, investor, and author. In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
