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Screw it, Let's Do it: Lessons in Life (Quick Reads) | 
| Author: Sir Richard Branson
Publisher: Virgin Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 487
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0753510995
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.04092
EAN: 9780753510995
ASIN: 0753510995
Publication Date: March 2, 2006
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 Great for motivating people December 10, 2008
This is a very interesting book.
Telling his own story, Branson shows us that if you believe in your capabilities and work hard you can get what you want.
The only less in this book is when sometimes we have the sensation he is trying use the book to apologize for some mistakes he made in the past that hurted people near him...
 Uninspiring February 22, 2008
As someone keen to learn from entrepreneurs I didn't find this book useful; it is too brief and lacking in substance to be of any real use in that respect. I like Richard Branson and feel that he surely has much more insight to offer than is contained within this short book, so I will probably buy his full autobiography.
 To coin an old cliché "short and sweet" January 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having not read Richard Branson's biog, I would have to assume that many of the stories of inspiration he uses have been well covered before. To me it was new material and added lots of insight into a great business mind.
A short book that I read in just two sittings. I only put it down the first time because I had to go to work! Best 'three quid' I have spent recently.
Get the full story! January 4, 2008
I have read Richard Branson biography, Losing my Virginity only recently and so this book contains nothing new...too bad i bought this one. Although cheap it's not really worth the money i have to admit. Go for his book, Losing my Virginity and you will get your money's worth! I don't understand the marketing strategy, if they even had one with this one!
Quick read, shallow story .... December 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm reviewing this book, not the man. The book is so concise (big print, designed for emergent readers) that even though you get through it cover to cover in just two hours there is very little satisfaction to be had.
It's a collection of snippets. Those who composed it do not even do us the service of keeping it to a decent chronological flow. It leaps back and forth chapter by chapter.
In compressing so many deeds into so few pages, I was left with the perception that Richard Branson was very smug; I did this good deed, then I had this great adventure, then I set up and sold a big business for a large profit, then I brokered a hostage-saving deal with Saddam Hussein, then I persuaded Elton John to sing at Princess Diana's funeral. I am sure that he is not the smug man that this book might lead you to believe. I would guess that you'd be better served (and learn more) by reading a fuller story.
PS I had to laugh at the Scottish reviewer of this book who worked out that he'd gotten just two words to the penny! Laugh out Loud!!
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