Richard Branson Quotes

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. Sir ~ Richard Branson

If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't ... ~ John King, Baron King Of Wartnaby

I have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions. ~ Richard Branson

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools. ~ Richard Branson

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place. ~ Richard Branson

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits. ~ Richard Branson

I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting. ~ Richard Branson

I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people ~ Richard Branson

Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy. ~ Richard Branson

People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay. But I'm a happy guy doing okay. ~ Afrojack

I learnt from an early age the need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them? ~ Richard Branson

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out. ~ Richard Branson

We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested. ~ Richard Branson

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind. ~ Richard Branson

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader. ~ Richard Branson

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting. ~ Richard Branson

Richard Branson likes to say, is that "business opportunities are like buses; there's always another coming around. ~ Ryan Holiday

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits. ~ Richard Branson

The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets. ~ Richard Branson

I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. Why change a model that they're happy in? And it takes someone like myself or Richard Branson who comes from outside the industry to say, 'Hey, let's try something new.' ~ Tony Fernandes

Keeping it short goes a long way. ~ Richard Branson

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do. ~ Richard Branson

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it ~ Richard Branson

My philosophy in life is that you only live once. Live life to its fullest. ~ Richard Branson

We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. ~ Richard Branson

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in. ~ Richard Branson

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. ~ Richard Branson

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star. ~ Richard Branson

It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face. ~ Richard Branson

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. ~ Richard Branson

Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors! ~ Richard Branson

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it? ~ Richard Branson

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures! ~ Richard Branson

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that. ~ Richard Branson

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. ~ Richard Branson

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day. ~ Richard Branson

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.' ~ Richard Branson

Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University. ~ Richard Branson

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view ~ Richard Branson

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow ~ Richard Branson

We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight. ~ Richard Branson

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other. ~ Richard Branson

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce. ~ Richard Branson

Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people. ~ Richard Branson

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence. ~ Richard Branson

Cover the downside. ~ Richard Branson

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening. ~ Richard Branson

You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well. ~ Richard Branson

All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you. ~ Richard Branson

It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial. ~ Richard Branson

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live. ~ Richard Branson

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it. ~ Richard Branson

I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people. ~ Richard Branson

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. ~ Richard Branson

What's the most critical factor in any business decision you'll ever have to make? Basically, it boils down to this question: If this all crashes, will it bring the whole house tumbling down like a pack of cards? One business matra remains embedded in my brain - protect the downside. ~ Richard Branson

If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got. ~ Richard Branson

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business. ~ Richard Branson

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better. ~ Richard Branson

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business. ~ Richard Branson

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun. ~ Richard Branson

You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done ... ~ Richard Branson

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. ~ Richard Branson

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking. ~ Richard Branson

I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine. ~ Richard Branson

Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other. ~ Richard Branson

It's so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child. ~ Richard Branson

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist. ~ Richard Branson

In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. ~ Richard Branson

We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services. ~ Richard Branson

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. ~ Richard Branson

The brand is only as good as your products, so.. if people have a good experience on Virgin Atlantic or if they have a good experience on Virgin trains or.. if they have a Virgin mobile phone and they can get straight through to our people and they're well looked after and then they'll try the next product that we launch. ~ Richard Branson

Sir Richard Branson is probably the best communicator ever. He was an inspiration for me - contrary to some reports, we've never done business together, although we did discuss an aviation venture very early on. I don't think easyJet competes with Virgin - we're in different areas. ~ Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice. ~ Richard Branson

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you. ~ Richard Branson

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars. ~ Richard Branson

For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that' - Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Inc. ~ Richard Branson

Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment. ~ Richard Branson

I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it. ~ Richard Branson

There's nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that. ~ Richard Branson

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation. ~ Richard Branson

I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot. ~ Richard Branson

We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy. ~ Richard Branson

As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. ~ Richard Branson

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no". ~ Richard Branson

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple. ~ Richard Branson

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders. ~ Richard Branson

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future. ~ Richard Branson

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and ~ Richard Branson

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide. ~ Richard Branson

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so. ~ Richard Branson

It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not. ~ Richard Branson

Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management - this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate. ~ Richard Branson

If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
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Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun. ~ Richard Branson

We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet. ~ Richard Branson

A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces. ~ Richard Branson

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements. ~ Richard Branson

I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express. ~ Richard Branson

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.' ~ Richard Branson

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine. ~ Richard Branson