Richard Branson Quotes

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

Business, Fun, Creative

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson

Business, Another, Coming

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson

Learning, Learn, Walk

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
Richard Branson

Attitude, Life, God

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
Richard Branson

Business, Yourself, True

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
Richard Branson

Failure, Learn, Start

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Richard Branson

Money, Successful, Mean

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson

Dictator, Benevolent, Provided

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson

School, Old, Left

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
Richard Branson

Group, Public, Company

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

Life, Love, Family

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
Richard Branson

Start, Dollars, Airline

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
Richard Branson

Two, Lucky, Ways

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard Branson

Business, Feeling, Done

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

Home, Car, Mother

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

Life, Work, Money

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
Richard Branson

Nice, Long, Alive

And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
Richard Branson

Great, Fun, Different

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

Become, Keep, Wanted

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
Richard Branson

Again, Rather, Avoid

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
Richard Branson

Challenge, Personal, Point

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard Branson

Life, Love, Freedom

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
Richard Branson

Getting, Blood, Bank

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

Strong, Whatever, Once

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

Through, Personal, Whether

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Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: July 18, 1950

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