Richard Branson
Richard Branson on the 8 rules he swears by to have a successful career and enjoyable life
- Multibillionaire Richard Branson launched his first business as a teenager, and has since founded a slew of companies and conglomerates, including Virgin Records, Virgin Airlines, Virgin Express, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Hotels, Virgin Cruises and Virgin Galactic.
- He also seems perpetually set to “happy” mode, and is known to truly enjoy the life he has created — which is far more important to him than his wealth. “I’ve never gone into business to make money,” he once said.
- Among his rules for building a successful, happy life: Be fearless in trying new things, and find a hobby that gets you outside.
Politics: Guyana at the precipice: two radically unprecedented realities today – by GHK Lall
As I watch and reflect upon the unyielding political impasses, the questions that come are: what is so different this time? What is so compelling, so inflammatory, that there is neither space nor opportunity nor inclination to lean forward, to reach for something—anything—that would narrow the yawning space in Guyana’s political no man’s land? What is there that mangles any groundwork toward some semblance of the genuine clasp of a national handshake?
I arrive at two answers to all those questions about why this country is at this point of sightless, wordless catastrophic stall. The first is unsurprising: OIL! The second place should startle: Cheddi Jagan. I say it again: Cheddi Jagan. Continue reading →
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