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What Richard Branson Taught Me

DarrenDaily On-Demand

Darren Hardy LLC

Leadership, Teams, Success, Highachiever, Entrepreneurship, Darrendaily, Personaldevelopment, Darrenhardy, Business, Careers, Selfimprovement, Productivity

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Darren Hardy reveals two powerful lessons—one from a mentor, another from a billionaire icon—that shaped his entire approach to success. What he discovered might surprise you, but it will absolutely shift the way you think about impact, excellence, and how to do more with less.

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0:00.0

I would rather do a few things with excellence than a lot of things, even if it is at the cost of not being worth $4 billion.

0:11.0

And I realized that I'm more interested in the art, in the excellence of it, and how I feel about what I put out, then just putting out more for the sake of scale.

0:25.5

Welcome to Darren Daily on demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better every day.

0:32.2

Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

0:38.3

You don't want them to say great speech because you dazzled them with your brilliance.

0:44.3

You want them to say, I think I can do that.

0:47.2

And that principle has guided what I do every single time.

0:53.6

I don't want them to go, wow, how impressive he is or how brilliant that was.

0:58.6

I want him to go, I think I can do that.

1:01.4

My goal is to have you say, have it be explained in package so that it's so simple and it's so

1:07.9

actionable, clearly that you now feel empowered to be able to do it.

1:13.8

So that is the first thing about what I learned from Jim is make things so that it is accessible

1:22.1

so that people are empowered by it, not overwhelmed and deluged by it. The second thing is what I learned

1:30.4

from Richard Branson and the opposite. So you talked about at one point I wanted to, you look

1:37.1

for models, right? Who do you want to be? I was like, oh, Richard's awesome. Look at the guy. He's

1:40.9

long flowing locks and he kitesurfs with models.

1:45.0

He's got his own private island.

1:47.0

Like, I just, and he's always happy.

1:49.0

He's happy.

1:50.0

Like, I want to be Richard Branson.

1:52.0

Then I got to know Richard.

1:55.0

And Richard with 400 companies has at any one time, 125 lawsuits pending that he's named in personally,

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