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From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON

In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON

I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill ov...
RICHARD BRANSON

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
RICHARD BRANSON

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
RICHARD BRANSON

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
RICHARD BRANSON

There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by...
RICHARD BRANSON

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend...
RICHARD BRANSON

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It'...
RICHARD BRANSON

I would be lying if I didn't admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. B...
RICHARD BRANSON

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody el...
RICHARD BRANSON

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

When exploring London, you will come across lots of excitement by chance, so try to take everything ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especiall...
RICHARD BRANSON

When we launched a new company, I reviewed the ads and marketing materials and asked those presentin...
RICHARD BRANSON

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was n...
RICHARD BRANSON

An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right. And the people out on the ...
RICHARD BRANSON

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

By putting the employee first, the customer effectively comes first by default, and in the end, the ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and ...
RICHARD BRANSON

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

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.
RICHARD BRANSON

All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.
RICHARD BRANSON

A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some...
RICHARD BRANSON

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between suc...
RICHARD BRANSON

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

Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you...
RICHARD BRANSON

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
RICHARD BRANSON

I love travelling full stop - so while I've had some harrowing instances, I never look at them n...
RICHARD BRANSON

I'm not sure how I'd survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must dr...
RICHARD BRANSON

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they ...
RICHARD BRANSON

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies...
RICHARD BRANSON

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme resp...
RICHARD BRANSON

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to...
RICHARD BRANSON

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to imp...
RICHARD BRANSON

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeti...
RICHARD BRANSON

Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an em...
RICHARD BRANSON

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn...
RICHARD BRANSON

Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if...
RICHARD BRANSON

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first ...
RICHARD BRANSON

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to f...
RICHARD BRANSON

I'm not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the...
RICHARD BRANSON

If you're embarking around the world in a hot-air balloon, don't forget the toilet paper.
RICHARD BRANSON

As a teenager, I went to Bali a lot, but it's a long, long way from England. Which is why, when ...
RICHARD BRANSON

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the ba...
RICHARD BRANSON

There's no point in starting a business unless you're going to make a dramatic difference to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason...
RICHARD BRANSON

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go...
RICHARD BRANSON

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it's always full of people i...
RICHARD BRANSON

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never q...
RICHARD BRANSON

Can you imagine what a different world we will live in when businesses do what's right for the c...
RICHARD BRANSON

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
RICHARD BRANSON

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
RICHARD BRANSON

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lo...
RICHARD BRANSON

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing ...
RICHARD BRANSON

Both [units] are extremely important carriers of the Virgin brand worldwide.
RICHARD BRANSON

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways, ... It's las...
RICHARD BRANSON

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if...
RICHARD BRANSON

We have enormous sympathy for him. He has done a fantastic job. It is sad they have to come down so ...
RICHARD BRANSON

last great aviation record left inside the Earth's atmosphere.
RICHARD BRANSON

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath,
RICHARD BRANSON

Obviously we are disappointed about not making it when we had it in our grasp,
RICHARD BRANSON

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go wit...
RICHARD BRANSON

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventur...
RICHARD BRANSON

I read the Sunday Telegraph stories. They're not too far off what may be happening.
RICHARD BRANSON

Well, I'm somebody who is just living...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I li...
RICHARD BRANSON

It has been like hitting up against a solid brick wall. All day and all night long, we battled to ge...
RICHARD BRANSON

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator
RICHARD BRANSON

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
RICHARD BRANSON

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to res...
RICHARD BRANSON

We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space tra...
RICHARD BRANSON

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, ov...
RICHARD BRANSON

My father Ted fought in North Africa, Italy, and Germany during World War II. My grandfather survive...
RICHARD BRANSON

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not m...
RICHARD BRANSON

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a num...
RICHARD BRANSON

As an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the Europea...
RICHARD BRANSON

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdo...
RICHARD BRANSON

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all e...
RICHARD BRANSON

There's an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they...
RICHARD BRANSON

It's as inspiring as always, it's brilliant.
RICHARD BRANSON

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
RICHARD BRANSON

Those who know me know I'm passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family...
RICHARD BRANSON

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's ...
RICHARD BRANSON

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are bran...
RICHARD BRANSON

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard a...
RICHARD BRANSON

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe...
RICHARD BRANSON

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sol...
RICHARD BRANSON

We are definitely in the market for interesting opportunities and, while David Lloyd is not a club w...
RICHARD BRANSON

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ te...
RICHARD BRANSON

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I...
RICHARD BRANSON

We pamper our passengers like no airline pampers them.
RICHARD BRANSON

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
RICHARD BRANSON

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
RICHARD BRANSON

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a mi...
RICHARD BRANSON

We are embarrassed to have entered the airspace without permission and relieved that they understand...
RICHARD BRANSON

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do wh...
RICHARD BRANSON

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

We are disappointed at the way this was dealt with at the boardroom level.
RICHARD BRANSON

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

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then l...
RICHARD BRANSON

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feelin...
RICHARD BRANSON

I love creating hideaways. My idea is to go to the most beautiful, unspoilt places, buy the land, an...
RICHARD BRANSON

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one...
RICHARD BRANSON

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
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

We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you ...
RICHARD BRANSON

I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we're the only 'way of life' bran...
RICHARD BRANSON

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your custome...
RICHARD BRANSON

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures - they're lying if the...
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holding on for dear life.
RICHARD BRANSON

More businesses should be following Apple's stance in encouraging more investment in sustainabil...
RICHARD BRANSON

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
RICHARD BRANSON

Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
BERNARD BRANSON We depend on the generosity of the citizens here to make the program the success it is today. We are...
AMY BRANSON I think the amount of money we raised was excellent for a first attempt. It was fun and I think ever...
AMY BRANSON The children just love getting to paint. It is a blessing to see the progress the children have made...
AMY BRANSON It was simply for a wonderful cause.
AMY BRANSON In spite of great coverage from the press, media and by word of mouth, there are still lots of peopl...
AMY BRANSON The inherently dangerous felony in this case is abuse of a child.
CHARLES BRANSON If we go forward, we may have an opportunity to put people under oath and get further information.
CHARLES BRANSON There may be an indication that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar. He may have...
CHARLES BRANSON the investigation is further along.
CHARLES BRANSON Anytime you have a case such as this they're hard to explain cases, they're just unimaginable. It's ...
CHARLES BRANSON At this point in time, we don't feel we have enough information,
CHARLES BRANSON We are holding out the possibility of additional charges.
CHARLES BRANSON I still consider this matter to be an ongoing investigation,
CHARLES BRANSON There may be indications that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar,
CHARLES BRANSON

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON 'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

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

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