21 Billionaires and Their Inspiring Quotes
16. Michael Dell
Born: 1965
Michael Saul Dell is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and author. He is known as the founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of personal computers.
Quote: “The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past.”
17. Richard Branson
Born: 1950
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies. His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16.
Quote: “If I’m setting up a new business I’ll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they’re running it at least I know what they’re talking about when they come back to me.”
18. Ted Turner
Born: 1938
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel.
Quote: “I just love it when people say I can’t do it, there’s nothing that makes me feel better [than proving them wrong] because all my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.”
