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.
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書中的敘事截至到2007年。看書纔知道維珍在英國是一個龐然大物,是一個橫跨很多領域的商業巨頭,以前隻知道維珍航空。主要內容是作者的自述。作者生於1950年,從小愛摺騰愛冒險,在校期間辦瞭一本雜誌,雖然沒掙錢,但是誤打誤撞由此進入唱片業,然後一路跌跌撞撞公司越來越大...
評分書中的敘事截至到2007年。看書纔知道維珍在英國是一個龐然大物,是一個橫跨很多領域的商業巨頭,以前隻知道維珍航空。主要內容是作者的自述。作者生於1950年,從小愛摺騰愛冒險,在校期間辦瞭一本雜誌,雖然沒掙錢,但是誤打誤撞由此進入唱片業,然後一路跌跌撞撞公司越來越大...
評分布蘭森是我最喜愛的企業傢之一,甚至沒有之一。他的迷人之處在於不斷挑戰跨越行業、産業的邊界;不循規蹈矩,不按照所謂的各種商業、品牌的定律行事。這不僅是因為個人的基因,成長環境給予的自信與魄力,我一直認為還有很多無法名狀的不可言的成功之道;經常成功並沒有固定的...
評分父母從小訓練獨立,一生冒險經曆過無數次接近死亡的挑戰,第一任妻子路過做愛2年離婚,第二任搶他客戶女朋友,2次熱氣球環球挑戰都船上獲救,2次齣海挑戰藍帶記錄,冒著隨時給轟炸的風險去援助科威特,傢族都有冒險精神外婆89歲考拉丁90歲高爾夫一杆入洞,姨媽創業 他的粉絲有...
評分因為他一直不斷的在尋找,尋找,尋找各種各樣自己想做然後很簡單,去做就好瞭,看到這個人的長相就覺得像隻獅子,一隻為瞭自己的理想而不斷奮鬥的獅子,周圍還有很多跟班,嗬嗬,但是在他年輕的時候有人會說這種崇拜他的話嗎?沒有,這是時間和堅持和耐心帶來的禮物。
圖書標籤: Business 英文原版 自傳 管理 技術 成長 思維 商業
One of the coolest guys in the world.
評分One of the coolest guys in the world.
評分One of the coolest guys in the world.
評分One of the coolest guys in the world.
評分One of the coolest guys in the world.
Losing My Virginity 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載