Richard Branson Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.

Give your employees a mission that matches their ambitions. When you challenge people, they surprise you.

There are no quick wins in business - it takes years to become an overnight success.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Talent comes from experience and failure

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.

A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Past failures unlock future successes

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don't let them drag you into the mud.

Have faith in yourself. Think yes not no. Live life to the full. Never give up.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Drive, determination, passion and hard work are all free and more valuable than a pot of cash.

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers

To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself

Dreaming is one of humanity’s greatest gifts; it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

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.'

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it. Think what's the most amazing way to do it.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

No matter how big you are, details count!

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

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.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

Doing good is good for business.

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

One thing is certain in business: you will make mistakes. When you are pushing the boundaries, mistakes are inevitable-how you react is important.

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.

Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.

Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.

To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

Don't wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

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.

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 for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.mple.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

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!

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

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.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

Most skills can be learned, but it is difficult to train people on their personality.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third - ultimately that's in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

I'm sure you get the best out of people if you look for the best in them. People don't need to be told when they've done something wrong - they know it without having to be told.