Richard Branson Quotes
240 Richard Branson Quotes (Sir Richard Branson Quotes)
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If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it’s like to win.
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Whenever anyone tells me that I’ve got no option, I try to prove them wrong.
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I can’t walk past a fat and complacent business sector without wanting to shake it up a bit.
Richard Branson
Children and companies flourish under praise.
Richard Branson
Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.
Richard Branson
In the early days, the actual Virgin name itself was perceived as slightly risqué. We weren’t even allowed to register it for three years with the Patent office because they felt it was ‘rude.’
Richard Branson
I’ve worn almost every costume there is to wear. It makes a back-page photo into a front-page one. And they come back for more.
Richard Branson
You have to believe in yourself and make it happen. That way others also believe in you.
Richard Branson
Money was for making things happen.
Richard Branson
[On being asked ‘Don’t you think it’s time to put a suit on?’] If I suddenly turn up at the bank wearing a suit and tie, they will know we’re in trouble.
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Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.
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My headmaster’s parting words to me were: ‘Congratulations, Branson. I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire.’
Richard Branson
I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.
Richard Branson
When someone offers you a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Mini you have to take it.
Richard Branson
Every successful businessman has failed at some ventures, and most entrepreneurs who run their own companies have been declared bankrupt at least once.
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We were going from the rock market to the stock market.
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At Virgin, we have a strategy of using the credibility of our brand to challenge the dominant players in a range of industries where we believe the consumer is not getting value for money.
Richard Branson
What I like most of all is to learn.
Richard Branson
People have to make choices if they are to get anywhere.
Richard Branson
The best lesson I learned was just do it.
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Make every second count.
Richard Branson
[As a child] I found that it was only when I was using real numbers to solve real problems that maths made any sense to me.
Richard Branson
[On how to become a millionaire] You start off as a billionaire and then [you] open an airline.
Richard Branson
It is always difficult to admit to a failure.
Richard Branson
Coping with success obviously brings its own difficulties for a rock band, but getting your name into people’s minds is almost the hardest thing to achieve.
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I now wore shoes and my hair was in no danger of getting caught in the revolving door, but they still treated me like a schoolboy prodigy rather than a businessman.
Richard Branson
I have never liked desks.
Richard Branson
If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Richard Branson
When we came up with the name ‘Virgin’ instead of ‘Slipped Disc’ Records for our record company in the winter of 1969, I had some vague idea of the name being catchy and applying to lots of other products for young people. It would have been interesting to have tracked the success of the Virgin companies or otherwise if we had called the company Slipped Disc Records. Slipped Disc Condoms might not have worked as well.
Richard Branson
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it.
Richard Branson
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable, challenges and trying to rise above them.
Richard Branson
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they don’t get a bollocking from me. They know they’ve mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
Richard Branson
Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.
Richard Branson
Develop the business around the people; build it, don’t buy it; and, then, be the best.
Richard Branson
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Richard Branson
When Virgin Records became successful we followed our instincts…
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Rather than spending a fortune coming up with a new image, I was talking to our graphic designer one day explaining what we wanted and he threw on the floor his doodling – the now famous Virgin signature – which I fortunately picked up on the way to the loo.
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Virgin stands for a sense of challenge.
Richard Branson
[On financial services] The consumer has been taken for a ride for too long by an industry which has been able to hide its charges.
Richard Branson
The Virgin name is trusted, especially by younger people.
Richard Branson
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