sixteen.
However, he was fearless, open-minded, and knew how to get along with just about
anyone. So Branson played to his strengths, and began looking for ways to make money
that involved his love of travel and music. He found his first opportunity buying left-over
albums from music companies in Europe and selling them in his native England for a
profit.
That led to his first music store, a mail-order business, and a music-production company
that signed up bands the mainstream labels were afraid to touch. Since then, Richard
Branson has never stopped pursuing new ideas, testing the limits, and sometimes
breaking the rules.
Now sixty years old, Branson is still taking life as one big adventure. In his words, “You
don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, then
getting up to try again.”
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