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“A company is simply a group of people and as a leader of people you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers, if you water flowers, they flourish, if you praise people, they flourish. And that’s a critical attribute of a leader.”

RICHARD BRANSON, VIRGIN

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“If you don't love it, you're not having fun doing it ,you don't really love it,

you're gonna give up.”

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“I half-jokingly with a lot of people said that my job is basically to be the assistant for the rest of the company. My job is to make sure that you have what you need, you have everything you need to kick ass, that’s my job. If you d...

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“That’s how we really got to where we are, we saw things that we wanted to build and we just went out and built them. And it turns out when you build stuff that you like to use, there’s a good chance that there are thousands of other people that want to use it too.”

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