47 Quotes by Richard Branson
- I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
- With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
- Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.
- You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
- Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
- 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.
- 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.
- We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
- We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.
- 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.
- We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
- 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.
- I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
- 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 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
- 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.
- 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.
- You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
- A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
- And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
- Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
- Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
- And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.
- Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision, and change.
- Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard for it
- Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change
- A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.
- The key to success is to focus on your goals, not obstacles.
- In the end, we only regret chances we didn't take.
- Success is not in what you have, but who you have become along the way
- Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who choose
- Success is overcoming the fear of failure and learning from mistakes
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Success is not achieved by chance, it is the result of hard work and perseverance.
- Success does not come from comfort zones, it comes from stepping outside of them.
- Success is not about how high you climb, but how you bounce back after you fall.
- Success is not measured by how high one climbs, but by how many times one bounces back after a fall.
- Success comes to those who dare to dream, and work hard to achieve them.
- Success is not about the destination, but the journey in achieving it.
- Screw it, let's do it!
- Success is not about the destination, but the journey of failing forward.
- Dream big and dare to fail. It's the only way to achieve great success.
- Screw it, let's do it.
- The biggest opportunity often lies where you least expect it.
- Success is like a fart—it only matters to those who it affects, and the wisest thing to do is just point to the toilet.
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