Richard Branson Quotes

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from

Be the best at what you do

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Commitment is not letting people down. That's very important in life.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

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.

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

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: "Do good".

Having no regrets makes way for the best piece of advice I can give - don't be afraid of failure.

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

If you're lucky enough to have a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank account, that should be sufficient for your own personal needs, and anything more than that you've got to put to good use.

I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.

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.

One day offices will be a thing of the past

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

THE KEY TO GENERATING LOYALTY AND RISING ABOVE THE GENERAL NOISE SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHENTIC VOICE.

Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

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

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

It's incredible to get people to turn out right in the middle of no where.

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

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

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

People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

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.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

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

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

If you do something for fun and create the best possible product, then the profit will come.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.