Top 500 Richard Branson Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “A business can be started with very little money.”

— Richard Branson

402. “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

403. “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

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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

413. “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

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Richard Branson

417. “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

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

421. “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

422. “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

423. “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

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

— Richard Branson

425. “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

426. “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

427. “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

428. “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

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

— Richard Branson

430. “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

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

— Richard Branson

432. “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

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Richard Branson

436. “Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.”

— Richard Branson

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

— Richard Branson

438. “If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.”

— Richard Branson

439. “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

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

— Richard Branson

441. “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

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

— Richard Branson

443. “In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.”

— Richard Branson

444. “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

445. “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

446. “Capitalism has never stood back and examined itself properly. I think everybody knows that capitalism is the only thing that works, but is the current form of capitalism the best way of it working?”

— Richard Branson

447. “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

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

— Richard Branson

449. “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

450. “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