Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist. He founded the Virgin Group, which controls more than 400 companies.
Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.
The best advice I got from my dad? Wear a condom.
Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it
If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.
I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.
People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.
Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.
If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.
I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.
An entrepreneur is somebody who is taking bold risks, is often doing things that have never been done before, trying to do things better. And an adventurer is challenging themselves, often doing things that have never been done before, seeing what they're capable of. In both cases, you've got to protect against the downside.
If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.
Be the best at what you do
Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.
I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.
I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.
Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.
I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.