Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I was the kind of entrepreneur that never really felt I made it. When Mike Olefield's "Tubular Bells" [Virgin Records' first release]… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Entrepreneursh ip is not about getting one over on the customer. It’s not about working on your own. It’s not about looking… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
With Virgin, I've just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I enjoy the company of other people. That's where I get most of my satisfaction from — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. — Richard Branson Copy Share
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share
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… — Richard Branson Copy Share
Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your… — Richard Branson Copy Share
All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution. — Richard Branson Copy Share
We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet. — Richard Branson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it… — Richard Branson Copy Share
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. — Richard Branson Copy Share
Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all. — Richard Branson Copy Share
People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it. — Richard Branson Copy Share
There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling. — Richard Branson Copy Share