“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
Richard Branson (1950) English business magnate, investor and philanthropist
“Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.”
Source: Communications of an Advertising Man (1961), p. 81
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