Richard Branson

Entrepreneur & Adventurer British Born 1950 (age 76)

Built Virgin brand empire spanning airlines, music, and space tourism.

382 quotes

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."
Perseverance
"Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated."
Wisdom
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over."
Courage
"Business is not financial science, it's about trading: buying and selling."
Work
"The key to success is to focus on goals, not rules."
Success
"I have no desire to make money off people, but I do have a desire to make money with people."
Money
"Life is a series of experiments. The more experiments you make, the better you are."
Life
"Putting is easy. You just stand there and make the ball go in the hole."
Humor
"Entrepreneurship is about turning ideas into reality and having fun doing it."
Creativity
"Respect is something you have to earn."
Leadership
"I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy."
Happiness
"Business events ain't just committees you attend; they're opportunities to learn and grow."
Education
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
Success
"Take care of your employees and they'll take care of your customers."
Work
"I wanted to be an author, but I became an entrepreneur by accident."
Life
"To succeed in business, you need to think big and act bigger."
Motivation
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Time
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Perseverance
"Assume the best in people. People are inherently good."
Kindness
"My learning has been tremendous throughout my career, but I've learned the most from my mistakes."
Knowledge
"Screw it, let's do it."
Courage
"Complexity kills. Simplicity wins."
Wisdom
"The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all."
Adventure
"You have to believe that people are inherently good and honest."
Faith
"Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak."
Wisdom
"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to."
Leadership
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
Work
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it."
Change
"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."
Motivation