Top 500 Richard Branson Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.”

— Richard Branson

452. “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

453. “In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.”

— Richard Branson

454. “Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.”

— Richard Branson

455. “The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.”

— Richard Branson

456. “I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions – it helps to have that passion to keep you going.”

— Richard Branson

457. “Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.”

— Richard Branson

458. “So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

460. “We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.”

— Richard Branson

461. “Whether we’re fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don’t have enough people who can code.”

— Richard Branson

462. “If you create something that makes a difference in people’s lives, you are likely to become a business success as well.”

— Richard Branson

463. “Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you’re in business.”

— Richard Branson

464. “The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children’s children. The clock is ticking.”

— Richard Branson

465. “Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

467. “If you go back into military history, the person who’s leading the troops ought to be in with the troops and not just standing on the backline sending them into battle.”

— Richard Branson

468. “Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing.”

— Richard Branson

469. “Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I’ve just had the most incredible dream. I’ve just dreamt my life.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

471. “We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.”

— Richard Branson

472. “If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.”

— Richard Branson

473. “However small a company, its founders should try to expand people’s opportunities and choices.”

— Richard Branson

474. “It’s clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.”

— Richard Branson

475. “Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They’re just people who love creating.”

— Richard Branson

476. “And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.”

— Richard Branson

477. “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.”

— Richard Branson

478. “If you are a new startup company, try not to arouse the interest or suspicion of your competition; especially if they are a bigger company. They can crush you while you are still in your startup phase. Lie low while still strengthening your bottom line.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

480. “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

481. “The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I’m sure we’d like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.”

— Richard Branson

482. “One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.”

— Richard Branson

483. “Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.”

— Richard Branson

484. “Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.”

— Richard Branson

485. “If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it’s time to try something else.”

— Richard Branson

486. “The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn’t matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, ‘The beginning is the most important part of any work.”

— Richard Branson

487. “With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.”

— Richard Branson

488. “Nothing else even comes close.”

— Richard Branson

489. “India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.”

— Richard Branson

490. “We’ll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.”

— Richard Branson

491. “If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.”

— Richard Branson

492. “We don’t actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.”

— Richard Branson

493. “The best advice I got from my dad? Wear a condom.”

— Richard Branson

494. “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

495. “I decided there must be room for another airline when I spent two days trying to get through to People Express.”

— Richard Branson

496. “So I’ve seen life as one long learning process.”

— Richard Branson

497. “I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.”

— Richard Branson

498. “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

499. “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

500. “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