".. and I suspect that anything that is morally wrong is ultimately bad for business "
From Richard Branson in a interview in the December 2006 issue of Business 2.0 magazine:
I met two big San Francisco entrepreneurs recently, and they said they get e-mail like this too [proposals and requests], but they just dump it all in the dustbin. They don't try to answer at all. I asked them why, and they said, "The time we spend responding could be used to create something of value for our business." That may well be pragmatically right, but I still think it's morally wrong, and I suspect that anything that is morally wrong is ultimately bad for business.
Absolutely... what goes around comes around. It's a worn and tired maxim I know, but definitely not one to bet against.
There's also a host of solid, common(?) sense advice for young entrepreneurs in the article Branson's Next Big Bet from the August 2006 issue... well worth a read (via Lars Pinds)
