How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
by Richard Branson
Recommended by 3 notable people, including The Barefoot Investor and Jen Sincero
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Losing My Virginity is a chatty, episodic memoir that rides on big, colorful stories about launching airlines, music ventures, and other audacious bets. What works best is vivid, energetic storytelling and a sense of how publicity, timing, and personal daring shaped several ventures. The main limitation is selective hindsight: detailed operational takeaways are scarce, failures are often skimmed, and the tone can tilt toward self-praise, leaving practical readers wanting more concrete explanation.
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"Oh, screw it, let's do it."That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twentyfive years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from fina...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Memoirs, Most Recommended Books, and Business.
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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