Richard Branson: The Two Best Mentors

They say that everything happens for a reason. Every person that comes into our life and leaves a mark on it, stays there on a long term for a reason. Some people become our work mates, others our friends, or teachers, and very few of them turn into our mentors. A mentor is a person that, by age, is more knowledgeable, has more experience and can guide with his advice a person who is willing to absorb his wisdom. From this point of view, a mentor goes far beyond the professional coaching, becoming a support in different life aspects of the person he's mentoring.
In reality, mentors are key pieces in our life trayectory. They are the people who positively influenced our personal and/or professional development. Who doesn't
Yet, Branson finds the interactivity with the work itself the most important thing about his success.
“My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.” -- Richard Branson Sara Blakely, the world's youngest self-made billionaire, believes that failure is a part of success, that one must be fired up, passionate about something. She says that the more you do what you love, the more you are actively engaged in the work you're passionate about, the more successful you'll feel and become.
“My definition of failure became not trying, not the outcome.” -- Sara Blakely
Blakely's words are technically the definition of failure, it is the decisive point of what success is: a continuous process of attempts and failure, during which one must not be afraid of failure. She believes that success comes to persistent people, who are willing to try over and over again, who fail, risk, stand up and try it again. In her opinion, success only comes if you are willing to fail, and good things come to those who wait, try, fail and learn from their failures. Willingness is part of the journey to
Success doesn't come easily, but slowly, and as the result of many, many trials and years of perseverant efforts. It’s those who quit, like those who never try, that won’t make it through to success.
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful entrepreneurs is perseverance.” -- Steve Jobs Sharing Blakely's opinion on perseverance, Steve Jobs reminds us that the key of success in life is continuing to come back and keep going. It is easy to look at successful business people and assume their fame and money came overnight, with no particular effort or failure, yet, rarely is that the case. By the time these "overnight" successes come to our attention, they have usually put in years or even decades of long, hard and dedicated work.
Tori Burch, a successful entrepreneur behind the Tori Burch fashion line, highlight the importance of hard work and the belief in yourself to be and do your own unique