Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies.
Branson's first successful business venture was at age 16, when he published a magazine called Student. He then set up an audio record mail-order business in 1970. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores and rebranded after a management buyout as Zavvi in late 2007. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s—as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
Richard Branson is the 261st richest person in the world according to Forbes' 2009 list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of approximately £1.5 billion (US$2.5 billion).
Love him or loathe him, you've got to admit that Richard Branson has drive. And guts. And enough ambition to sink a battleship--or perhaps that should be a jumbo jet--or even a whole company of jumbos if the Virgin Atlantic/British Airways debacle (which takes up a huge chunk of this already sizable tome) is anything to go by.
Branson's autobiography makes immensely fascinating reading. Whatever you think of Britain's most famous entrepreneur the odds are that you will enjoy reading his autobiography. You may snort at descriptions of his "poor" childhood--spent eating bread and dripping while living in the kind of house house the majority of us visit on Bank Holidays and attending a "minor" public school. You may groan at memories of early initiative tests: how about being thrown out of the family car and told by his mother to find his way home--at the age of four? You may flinch at accounts of his early business days as an unwashed, unshod hippy magazine publisher living en famille with his staff in the crypt of a West London church. But all in all you'll get to understand where the guy's coming from--man.
And like the man himself, there's no holds barred here. Richard bares his soul, from childhood, school days (cheating at exams), loves and losses (lost one wife when a spot of wife-swapping went drastically wrong--for him) and death-defying adventures (yes, the balloons are all there) to the rise and rise of the Virgin empire. His interviews for Student magazine and the early days of Virgin Music read like a chronicle of popular music and culture in the late 20th century. Famous names bounce off every page. Prepare to be enthralled by the life and times of a walking publicity machine.
Richard Brosson 一生都在刀刃上行走。左边是火海,右边是万丈深渊,而他始终关注着前方,并深信自己能到达终点。这样的人生太不可思议,也难以复制,除非你是一个不在刀刃上就无法找到快乐的人。 他非法进口音像制品,以扩大公司的实力。 他在一位女士的老公眼皮下勾引她上...
评分看里查德布兰森自传的时候,脑海中有偶尔浮现乔布斯的形象,同样都出生于20世纪50年代、辍学、钟爱嬉皮士、亿万富翁。但相较于懂技术、专注于科技领域的乔布斯,里查德布兰森在商业上所获得的成就,更加来源于其“敏锐的商业直觉”、“疯狂的冒险精神”,我觉得这是“纯粹”的...
评分能够辍学创业,进入如此多的行业,而且永远保持酷炫的精神,令人赞叹。为了推荐这本很不错的书,破例为其打五星。 p9 布兰森小时候家里条件一般,但很乐观。 p26 通过各种手法,在艰苦的环境里努力让产业口口相传,恐怕这是永远有效的法宝。 生意本身也能成为富于创意的事业。...
评分布兰森是我最喜爱的企业家之一,甚至没有之一。他的迷人之处在于不断挑战跨越行业、产业的边界;不循规蹈矩,不按照所谓的各种商业、品牌的定律行事。这不仅是因为个人的基因,成长环境给予的自信与魄力,我一直认为还有很多无法名状的不可言的成功之道;经常成功并没有固定的...
评分看里查德布兰森自传的时候,脑海中有偶尔浮现乔布斯的形象,同样都出生于20世纪50年代、辍学、钟爱嬉皮士、亿万富翁。但相较于懂技术、专注于科技领域的乔布斯,里查德布兰森在商业上所获得的成就,更加来源于其“敏锐的商业直觉”、“疯狂的冒险精神”,我觉得这是“纯粹”的...
One of the coolest guys in the world.
评分One of the coolest guys in the world.
评分One of the coolest guys in the world.
评分One of the coolest guys in the world.
评分One of the coolest guys in the world.
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有