Top 500 Richard Branson Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.”

— Richard Branson

302. “Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.”

— Richard Branson

303. “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

304. “Because I don’t see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don’t think I’ll ever retire.”

— Richard Branson

305. “Money is a poor indicator of success.”

— Richard Branson

306. “Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that’s largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.”

— Richard Branson

307. “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.”

— Richard Branson

308. “I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business.”

— Richard Branson

309. “Can you afford to ignore China? It’s like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don’t think so.”

— Richard Branson

310. “The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.”

— Richard Branson

311. “The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me.”

— Richard Branson

312. “When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.”

— Richard Branson

313. “You need lucky breaks to be successful.”

— Richard Branson

314. “I’d like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object to its responsible use as a recreational relaxant.”

— Richard Branson

315. “I’ve obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.”

— Richard Branson

316. “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

317. “It’s really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It’s very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you’re feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.”

— Richard Branson

318. “People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up.”

— Richard Branson

319. “Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That’s your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.”

— Richard Branson

320. “Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.”

— Richard Branson

321. “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

322. “If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.”

— Richard Branson

323. “I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.”

— Richard Branson

324. “My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn’t watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.”

— Richard Branson

325. “The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.”

— Richard Branson

326. “Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.”

— Richard Branson

327. “I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.”

— Richard Branson

328. “Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.”

— Richard Branson

329. “Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.”

— Richard Branson

330. “It’s better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.”

— Richard Branson

331. “It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.”

— Richard Branson

332. “If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you’ll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you’ll have a much more successful business.”

— Richard Branson

333. “Whatever you and your team decide your new brand will stand for, deliver on that promise. That’s the only way you’ll ever control your brand. And beware: brands always mean something. If you don’t define what the brand means, your competitors will.”

— Richard Branson

334. “I believe in goals. It’s never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.”

— Richard Branson

335. “I’m a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.”

— Richard Branson

336. “In the ’80’s my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I’d like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.”

— Richard Branson

337. “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

338. “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.”

— Richard Branson

339. “I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.”

— Richard Branson

340. “I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.”

— Richard Branson

341. “By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.”

— Richard Branson

342. “My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.”

— Richard Branson

343. “I’m not superstitious. I don’t really believe in star signs, sorry, or superstitions.”

— Richard Branson

344. “I truly believe that capitalism was created to help people live better lives, but sadly over the years it has lost its way a bit. The short-term focus on profit has driven most businesses to forget about the important long-term role they have in taking care of people and the planet.”

— Richard Branson

345. “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

346. “We’d love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.”

— Richard Branson

347. “What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.”

— Richard Branson

348. “I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

350. “The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.”

— Richard Branson