49 Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life by Richard Branson — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-12-03
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“Plus, you have, uh, access to all the archives for all the notes that I've done so far, and that, I think…”
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Focus
“Or they'd say things like, 'Sign The Rolling Stones?' 'My wife doesn't like them.' 'Janet Jackson, who's she?' I have always made…”
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People
“Around 70,000 people applied for shares by post.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: people.
Persistence
“We're putting our savings in Virgin, and we're banking on you, Richard.' It wasn't long, though, before I came to hate the…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“We doubled our profits, but Virgin shares started to slip, and for the first time in my life, I was depressed.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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