Richard Branson Quotes

240 Richard Branson Quotes

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I believe the one things that helps you capture the moment is to have no regrets. Regrets weigh you down. They hold you back in the past when you should move on.
Richard Branson

If a ferry goes down with loss of life, it’s not the passengers who are at fault, but the captain or the owners.
Richard Branson

Always living in the future can slow us down as much as always looking behind.
Richard Branson

Money is just a means to an end, not an end in itself.
Richard Branson

I have learned to live for the moment.
Richard Branson

You can be best friends with someone and still not agree with them and, if you are close, you can get through it and remain friends.
Richard Branson

I have learned always to reward talent.
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We closed the swimming pool at the Manor. We didn’t pay ourselves. Those were the easy savings. The hard ones were dropping some artists and losing staff. But we had to cut right back to survive.
Richard Branson

When you pick the right people… you know that things will run smoothly if you’re not there.
Richard Branson

In business you have to make some very hard choices.
Richard Branson



Gossip has a habit of getting back to those you gossip about.
Richard Branson

Never do anything if it means you can’t sleep at night.
Richard Branson

I was brought up to think we could all change the world.
Richard Branson

I believe we should all assess our lives from time to time. Have we reached our goals?
Richard Branson

I like to walk around the lake on my own, just thinking.
Richard Branson

I had two choices: to close the airline or sell the record company. The problem was that I thought I could keep both… But banks don’t like risk…
Richard Branson

I like history books best…
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Everyone needs to keep learning. Everyone needs goals.
Richard Branson

My parents always treated my two sisters, Lindi and Vanessa, and me as equals whose opinions were just as valid as theirs.
Richard Branson

As children we discussed Dad’s legal cases, and argued about pornography and whether drugs should be legalised long before any of us knew what we were really talking about.
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My parents always encouraged us to have our own opinions and rarely gave us advice unless we asked for it.
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My parents had very little money during our childhood and perhaps because Mum wasn’t greatly interested in cooking, or perhaps because she was saving money, I remember eating a good deal of bread and dripping.
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In order to make ends meet, Mum invited German and French students over to learn English in a typical English household, and we had to entertain them.
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There was a great sense of teamwork within our family.
Richard Branson

When someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.
Richard Branson

I was in trouble – and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn’t read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn’t read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested.
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I was bottom in every subject and would clearly not pass the Common Entrance exam.
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I worry about all the people who have been classified as stupid by these kinds of [IQ] tests. Little do they know that often these IQ tests have been dreamt up by academics who are absolutely useless at dealing with the practicalities of the outside world.
Richard Branson

I think my parents must have instilled a rebellious streak in me. I have always thought rules were there to be broken…
Richard Branson

I started speaking faster and pushing harder.
Richard Branson



[As a 15 year old] Anything I do in life I want to do well and not half-heartedly.
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I was lucky I always felt that I could speak to my parents as if they were my closest friends.
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[For Richards childhood budgie business] The last thing my father wanted to do was to spend his weekends building a cage for my budgerigars, but he never told me.
Richard Branson

Throughout my life, I’ve always needed somebody as a counterbalance, to compensate for my weaknesses, and work off my strengths.
Richard Branson

I was becoming an entrepreneur almost by default, although if anybody had mentioned the word to me then I would probably have had to ask Jonny what it meant.
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Business could be a creative enterprise in itself.
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A business has to be involving; it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
Richard Branson

You might almost say that I was old before my time. While the others might happily sit around in the evening getting stoned, unconcerned about waking up late the next morning with a hangover, I was always aware of the need to keep a clear head.
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Fantasising about the future is one of my favourite pastimes.
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Teenagers spend more time listening to music, talking about their favourite bands and choosing records than almost anything else.
Richard Branson



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