Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it. — 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
I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil… — 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
I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service… — 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
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
Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible.… — 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
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
Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainability. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it? — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders. — 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