Sir Richard Branson is the multi-billion dollar man who founded Virgin back in 1970.
Virgin has brands in many, many different areas, and although Branson started out in the music industry with Virgin Records; the company now has expanded into areas such as the Virgin Airline, Virgin Media.
This an incredible collection of 70 Richard Branson quotes that all entrepreneurs need to hear. Take a look and share them on your social media.
70 Richard Branson Quotes For Entrepreneurs
1. “Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.” – Richard Branson
2. “If you don’t succeed at first, there’s no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.” – Richard Branson
3. “Life is a hell of a lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.” – Richard Branson
4. “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
5. “Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.” – Richard Branson
6. “Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.” – Richard Branson
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7. “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently un-achievable challenges, and trying to rise above them.” – Richard Branson
8. “Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.” – Richard Branson
9. “Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.” – Richard Branson
10. “Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.” – Richard Branson
11. “Screw it. Let’s do it.” – Richard Branson
12. “Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.” – Richard Branson
13. “The best way of learning about anything is by doing.” – Richard Branson
14. “I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.” – Richard Branson
15. “A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.” – Richard Branson
16. “Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!” – Richard Branson
17. “If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you’ve got.” – Richard Branson
18. “Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.” – Richard Branson
19. “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
20. “You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.” – Richard Branson
21. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.” – Richard Branson
22. “Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.” – Richard Branson
23. “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson
24. “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
25. “There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.” – Richard Branson
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26. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
27. “Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.” – Richard Branson
28. “I don’t think of work as work and play as play, it’s all living.” – Richard Branson
29. ”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
30. “Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.” – Richard Branson
31. “We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.” – Richard Branson
32. “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
33. “Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!” – Richard Branson
34. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” – Richard Branson
35. “Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.” – Richard Branson
36. “You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.” – Richard Branson
37. “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
38. “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 – 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
39. “My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.” – Richard Branson
40. “There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.” – Richard Branson
41. “If you’re hurt, lick your wound and get up again. If you’ve given it your absolute best, it’s time to move forward.” – Richard Branson
42. “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’.” – Richard Branson
43. “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
44. “The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‘Oh no, it’s on the house.” – Richard Branson
45. “Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.” – Richard Branson
46. “Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries.” – Richard Branson
47. “The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.” – Richard Branson
48. “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
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49. “A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better.” – Richard Branson
50. “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
51. “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
52. “With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.” – Richard Branson
53. “When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly, is hard to do.” – Richard Branson
54. “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
55. “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
56. “Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.” – Richard Branson
57. “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
58. “If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things.” – Richard Branson
59. “Remember it’s OK to be yourself.” – Richard Branson
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60. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” – Richard Branson
61. “And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.” – Richard Branson
62. “Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.” – Richard Branson
63. “Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.” – Richard Branson
64. “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 years old. And if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.” – Richard Branson
65. “One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.” – Richard Branson
66. “I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.” – Richard Branson
67. “Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.” – Richard Branson
68. “Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, luckier you become.” – Richard Branson
69. “Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.” – Richard Branson
70. “If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.” – Richard Branson
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