Top 500 Richard Branson Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts – it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.”

— Richard Branson

402. “Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.”

— Richard Branson

403. “Happiness doesn’t come from making a fortune and owning lots of possessions. ‘Stuff’ doesn’t bring happiness. Family, friends, good health and the satisfaction that comes from making a positive difference are what really matter.”

— Richard Branson

404. “Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.”

— Richard Branson

405. “I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.”

— Richard Branson

406. “I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money – especially if they’re offering expensive, poor-quality products.”

— Richard Branson

407. “I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard.”

— Richard Branson

408. “I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.”

— Richard Branson

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

412. “What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.”

— Richard Branson

413. “London is one of the most exciting cities in the world with so many fantastic pubs and restaurants. I would urge people to get out there and see as much as possible.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

415. “My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.”

— Richard Branson

416. “All of us have just got to find that time to look after our bodies. That helps us make sure that our mind is sharp. I know that when I’m feeling great and really fit, I can get in three or four hours more of really productive work.”

— Richard Branson

417. “I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.”

— Richard Branson

418. “So I became a publisher by mistake – well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you’re going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

420. “People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.”

— Richard Branson

421. “I’m sure if Brawn GP keep plying me with champagne and putting gorgeous Virgin girls either side of me, you never know!”

— Richard Branson

422. “I think that marijuana should be legalized. I think the only reason it isn’t legal is because politicians who smoked it when they were young men or young women just don’t have the courage when they become politicians to legalize it.”

— Richard Branson

423. “If people are jumping down people’s throats all the time, in the end, they’ll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that’s not watered.”

— Richard Branson

424. “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

425. “To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.”

— Richard Branson

426. “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

427. “I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.”

— Richard Branson

428. “I don’t buy a lot of things. I like to create things. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to build my beautiful island in the Caribbean. I certainly haven’t regretted that.”

— Richard Branson

429. “I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I’m meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.”

— Richard Branson

430. “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.”

— Richard Branson

431. “There are quite a few things I’ve done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.”

— Richard Branson

432. “Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.”

— Richard Branson

433. “I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.”

— Richard Branson

434. “New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we’ve done the space program, we will be producing supersonic planes, which will go far, far, faster than Concorde.”

— Richard Branson

435. “One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you’re building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.”

— Richard Branson

436. “We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.”

— Richard Branson

437. “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

438. “I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can’t, I’ll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

440. “I never set out to be a businessman.”

— Richard Branson

441. “As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.”

— Richard Branson

442. “Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.”

— Richard Branson

443. “I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.”

— Richard Branson

444. “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.”

— Richard Branson

445. “Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.”

— Richard Branson

446. “Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.”

— Richard Branson

447. “We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.”

— Richard Branson

448. “Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.”

— Richard Branson

449. “It’s incredible to get people to turn out right in the middle of no where.”

— Richard Branson

450. “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