3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson 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.’
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
3 December 2020 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.’
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson 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.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
3 December 2020 Richard Branson One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
