Richard Branson Quotes
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801. “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

802. “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

803. “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

804. “Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

806. “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

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807. “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

808. “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

809. “If you have an idea that’s going to make a big difference to people’s lives, and other people are not doing it, you know, just say “screw it,” do it and get on with it, and give it a go.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

813. “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

814. “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

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

— Richard Branson

816. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

819. “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

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820. “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

821. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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823. “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

824. “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

825. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

828. “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

829. “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

830. “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

831. “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

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

— Richard Branson

833. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

837. “Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.”

— Richard Branson

838. “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

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

— Richard Branson

840. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

845. “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

846. “Brands always mean something. If you don’t define what the brand means, your competitors will.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

848. “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

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

— Richard Branson

850. “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