Top 500 Richard Branson Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Richard Branson

352. “At the end, entrepreneurship is not about wearing expensive suits and earning a lot of money. It is all about being true to yourself, to your values in life. Your dreams.”

— Richard Branson

353. “I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.”

— Richard Branson

354. “I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.”

— Richard Branson

355. “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

356. “The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.”

— Richard Branson

357. “Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.”

— Richard Branson

358. “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

359. “If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.”

— Richard Branson

360. “Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.”

— Richard Branson

361. “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

362. “Protect your reputation. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.”

— Richard Branson

363. “Choose great people and shine in their shadows.”

— Richard Branson

364. “If you can make peoples lives a lot better, you’ve got a really good business.”

— Richard Branson

365. “It is important in life to turn adversity to success.”

— Richard Branson

366. “For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.”

— Richard Branson

367. “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

368. “An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.”

— Richard Branson

369. “In the beginning it was just about the business – now it’s about the brand.”

— Richard Branson

370. “A business can be started with very little money.”

— Richard Branson

371. “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

372. “As an entrepreneur, you’ve got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you’ve got to protect against losing your life. It’s even more important as an adventurer to get it right.”

— Richard Branson

373. “Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism – there’s a profit to be made too.”

— Richard Branson

374. “It’s obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.”

— Richard Branson

375. “I think I’ve learned that if you have a house, you end up living in the kitchen, so if you have one big kitchen and then enough bedrooms for your family, that’s about all you need for a home.”

— Richard Branson

376. “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.”

— Richard Branson

377. “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

378. “Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.”

— Richard Branson

379. “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

380. “I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you’ve done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.”

— Richard Branson

381. “The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.”

— Richard Branson

382. “I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people’s lives by setting out to make other people’s lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.”

— Richard Branson

383. “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

384. “Find somebody else to run your business on a day-to-day basis.”

— Richard Branson

385. “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.”

— Richard Branson

386. “I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I’ve done I would not have done if I’d have asked the accountants to look at them before.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

388. “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

389. “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

390. “I drink about 30 cups of tea a day. I’m a complete tea addict.”

— Richard Branson

391. “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

392. “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

393. “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

394. “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

395. “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

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

— Richard Branson

397. “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

398. “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

399. “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

400. “I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.”

— Richard Branson