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 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
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it? — 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
The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh… — 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
What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is… — 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
All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll… — 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 just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people,… — 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
I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die.… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I was a risk-taker as a young man, and I don't regret it. I'm not adventurous in quite the same way now,… — 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
And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
![“And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on…” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/569/richard-branson-256_airline_and-ever-since-then-i-have-set-up-busine_548374.jpg)
![“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 with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
