• Screw It, Let's Do It

  • Lessons in Life and Business
  • By: Sir Richard Branson
  • Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
  • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,229 ratings)

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Screw It, Let's Do It

By: Sir Richard Branson
Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney
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Publisher's summary

Richard Branson is an iconic businessman. In Screw It, Let’s Do It, he shares the secrets of his success and the invaluable lessons he has learned over the course of his remarkable career. As the world struggles with the twin problems of global recession and climate change, Richard explains why it is up to big companies like Virgin to lead the way in finding a more holistic and environmentally friendly approach to business. He also looks to the future and shares his plans for taking his business and his ideas to the next level.

Richard reveals the new and exciting areas into which Virgin is currently moving, including bio fuels and space travel, and brings together all the important lessons, good advice and inspirational adages that have helped him along the road to success. This is a fantastic motivational book that will help listeners achieve their own dreams.

©2010 Sir Richard Branson (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks

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Screw it, I just wasted my money!

He reminds me of Bobby Knight...he was popular..he won games...but he was full of crap. Knight's crap was his anger and abuse...Branson's is self love and self adulation....you can learn from both about strategy but you also have to deal with the crap. I will save you money so u don't have to listen to him tell you how awesome he is:

- Do what you love
- Believe that you can succeed
- Never give up
- Don't listen to the naysayers.

He learned all that from his Mum...he is not some brilliant innovator but followed a brilliant strategy ..he just knew what the people wanted and went into action. His nature was formed by his Mum...he emulated her....he got rich because he did the same thing she did but in profit making companies....that's it.

With some bits of strategy, he mostly talked about his social concerns; basically, to put it in an analogy - he said how he's wonderful because he gave a poor man a fish and announced to the world that it was HE that gave the poor man a fish...but he solved nothing!!!! The poor man was just as hungry the next day! Teach him how to fish and THEN teach him how to sell at the fish market and he'll be fed everyday as well as his family and neighbors.


Note to Branson, Bono and rich folks who love glorifying themselves about how they help others, but really don't help anyone - you want to lessen hunger, lessen disease, lessen wars?....then follow me....I know how to do it.....BUILD UP THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM IN EACH OF THEIR MAJOR CITIES!!!!!!

Save your money and buy a book about Steve Jobs. You will get great ideas and the motivation you're looking for without the continuous nauseating self praise.

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Turns into 4 hour global warming campaign

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Book started out alright but plunged quicker then one of Branson's hot air balloons. To break this book down:
Try hard and find a way to make it happen
An hour of hot air balloon stories
4 hours about global warming and his airline
All sprinkled with name dropping of politicians

If you are looking to learn something or inspiration, avoid this book.

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Terrible only heaving hot air

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pathetic talking about himself, no management. Waste of time i wish i had read the reviews earlier.

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Disappointed

This is just a book about the risks he has taken. It started off slow, and stayed that speed. I enjoyed hearing about his plans with environmental protection, but he lost me when he started talking about girlfriends having abortions. I won't be finishing this book.

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Screw It!

Wow, Richard Branson has always been a powerful figure in the world, but never has he been so inspiring. I've lived a life working to gain and grow my own future by struggling every day to change my family tree. I don't enjoy life and I don't think globally. It's time to change that and this book has done that for me. I am excited to look for more opportunities for growth and have him to thank for that.

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A great book about a great guy - highly recommend.

Interesting, inspiring, educational book. Sir Richard Branson sound like a very intelligent, likeable, creative and advanced thinking person. I formed a great respect for him from what I learned from this audi material.

I especially liked his positions on environmental issues. We all have to contribute, this is not someone else's problem and it appears he's doing his Lion's Share.

Really the only thing I didn't like, considering he's so much into environment, is that ha basically didn't say one word about VEGANISM, but keeps going on and on about fuel and other polluters.

VEGANISM is by far the greatest contribution a person can do to reduce, if not eliminate current environmental problems in the world.

Farming animals causes largest negative impact on environment by far greater than all worlds transportation in all of its forms combined together.

Eating a VEGAN diet and living a VEGAN lifestyle is the single best way to reduce negative impact on environment, improve own health and-for me the most important-ethically treat other sentient beings by keeping them free of horrific sufferings causes by human greed, selfishness and insensitivity.

I for sure greatly appreciate and highly recommend this book.

Neven Corak


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only first 20 seconds from each chapter are

only first 20 seconds from each chapter are interesting, all the rest was super boring for me

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I expected more

I expected more. Mr Branson should have read him self. he's an incredible individual but the book needs more passion

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Entertaining and insightful

I'm very glad I finally got to this book. It was extremely entertaining and motivating.

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another great life story by Sir Richard Branson

another great life story by Sir Richard Branson!! highly recommend re listening for extra tips

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