I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I've never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we're the only 'way of life' brand in the world. We're… — 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
Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're - if you're good with people and you've got - you know,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if they say they haven't. Virgin has had some tremendously… — 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
The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky; it's an attitude and a way of life to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the… — 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
