Billionaire Richard Branson has some simple advice for those who want to succeed

Billionaire Richard Branson has some simple advice for those who want to succeedBillionaire Richard Branson has some simple advice for those who want to succeedRichard Branson has achieved a lot - hes a billionaire, he resides on his own privately-owned island and founded global corporation Virgin.But Bransons life wasnt always so easy he battled with dyslexia and struggled badly at school.In spite of the challenges that faced him, he stuck to his guns and transformed his struggles into strengths.Richard Branson lives a life many hanker after as a billionaire who resides on his own privately-owned island and the head of global corporation Virgin, its not hard to see why. And he managed to achieve all this in spite of leaving school early.Time and again, Branson encourages young people to stay faithful to themselves in the face of all odds. After all, hes living proof that anything is possible - as a child, he struggled greatly with dyslexia. No one ever dreamed that he would pionee r a global music and video game company, an airline and a space project.Theres a secret to Bransons success, and its very simpleHe has one piece of advice for anyone still at the beginning of their careers dont give up. On Virgins website, he saidThere have been so many times in my career where my ideas were overlooked. Friends, family members, people I looked up to, and the banks not everyone always saw the potential I saw. But that didnt deter me. Just because others dont believe in your ideas from the get-go doesnt mean that they are worthless. In my case, it drove me to want to succeed even more.He believes theres always a second chance in life, for everything - and that if you give up, you never know what you would have achieved in the end.Imagine where J.K. Rowling would be if she didnt keep persevering when others didnt recognise the greatness of her books, he said. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone was rejected 12 times and she was told not to quit her day job Thomas Edison failed thousands of times to invent the lightbulb - if hed given up, wed all be in the dark. Branson also learned from his mistakesAfter Branson failed at school, he could have accepted his fate. Yet, instead, he made his greatest weakness his greatest strength he learned to love everything simple through dyslexia, which later became the geschftliches miteinander principle when he founded Virgin.Richard Branson is convinced everyone can write their own futureNobody gets everything right first time, and it is how we learn from our mistakes that defines us. We all deserve a second chance.This article originally appeared on Business Insider Deutschland. This post originally appeared on Business Insider Deutschland and has been translated from German.