While on vacation at Beef Island (part of the Virgin islands), Richard Branson and his wife were trying to catch a flight back to Puerto Rico, but the local Puerto Rican was cancelled. There were no other flights out that day. As a result, the airport was full of stranded passengers. Instead of seeing it as a problem, Richard Branson's millionaire got him to see it as a challenging opportunity and took a very different set of actions.
Richard Branson made a few calls to aircraft charter companies and managed to charter a private plane to Puerto Rico for $2000. Knowing that there were many stranded passengers who needed to catch a flight out badly, he divided the price by the number of seats, borrowed a blackboard and wrote 'Virgin Airways $39 single flight to Puerto Rico'. Within an hour, with the blackboard in his hand, he had sold every single seat! As they landed at Puerto Rico, one passenger said to Richard: "Virgin Airways isn't too bad. Smarten up the service a little and you could be in business."
This is how Virgin Airways was started by Richard Branson. Today, Virgin Airways is a global budget airline and one of the most profitable in the world. The amazing thing about Richard Branson was that he did not use any of his money to solve his problem. He used his millionaire mindset to turn a problem into an opportunity which made him a billionaire today.
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