30 Richard Branson Quotes on Leadership, Business and Success
Here is our latest collection of Richard Branson quotes to inspire success in the business. These Richard Branson quotes will help you excel in life and become the person you always wanted to be.
Who is Richard Branson?
Richard Branson, in full Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate. He was born July 18, 1950, in Shamley Green, Surrey, England. Richard Branson is a born entrepreneur. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. The magazine quickly became successful. In the 1970s Richard Branson founded the Virgin Group, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Branson created many companies under the “Virgin” label including Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Virgin Blue, and Virgin Mobile.
Richard Branson has broken multiple boating world records. In addition, he’s appeared in numerous television shows and movies. For instance, he appeared in the James Bond movie, Casino Royale.
He also remains active in politics and even fasted for three days to protest the oppressive Sudanese government.
Richard Branson Quotes
- “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Whatever your goal is, you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.” ~ Richard Branson
- “You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it’s because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It’s the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.” ~ Richard Branson
- “To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.” ~ Richard Branson
Richard Branson Quote
- “My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.” ~ Richard Branson
- “My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’” ~ Richard Branson
- “For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.” ~ Richard Branson
Best Richard Branson Quotes
- “The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.” ~ Richard Branson
- “You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.” ~ Richard Branson
- “My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.” ~ Richard Branson
- “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” ~ Richard Branson
Quotes by Richard Branson
- “One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.” ~ Richard Branson
- “If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” ~ Richard Branson
- “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” ~ Richard Branson
- “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” ~ Richard Branson
- “I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.” ~ Richard Branson
- “If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!” ~ Richard Branson
- “Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.” ~ Richard Branson
- “The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.” ~ Richard Branson
- “So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.” ~ Richard Branson
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