Richard Branson and his mother, Eve Branson, attend the AltaMed Power Up, We Are The Future Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 12, 2016Self-made billionaires Richard Branson and Elon Musk are both at the forefront of transforming the way we travel.
Although Branson, 67, and Musk, 46, have taken different paths to achieve success, both of their mothers taught them a crucial lesson while growing up: To get the results you want, you need to work hard and take risks. "When I was younger, if I wasn't pulling my weight my mum would always say 'pull your socks up, Ricky!'" Branson wrote in aEve Branson is a 95-year-old British philanthropist and author who's had an appetite for adventure"My mum always told me how life is too short to fear flying higher," Branson said.
Instead of spoiling him as a child, Branson said his mother would challenge him to keep his feet on the ground and work at what he wanted. "My mum is a very adventurous person. She very much felt that she wanted us to stand on our own two feet and not to be 'mollycoddled,' as she would call it," the founder of Virgin Group told CNBC's
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