Richard Branson Quotes & Sayings

#1. You need lucky breaks to be successful.

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#2. Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

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#3. Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.

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#4. My definition of success? The more you are actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.

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#5. If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven't been holding the right glass

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#6. I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.

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#7. You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

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#8. Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

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#9. Be the best at what you do

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#10. As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.

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#11. If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you're not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later.
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#12. Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

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#13. No matter how big you are, details count!

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#14. We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.

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#15. The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

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#16. Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

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#17. Nothing else even comes close.

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#18. Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.

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#19. Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

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#20. First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

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#21. The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

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#22. If you can make peoples lives a lot better, you've got a really good business.

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#23. Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

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#24. Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.

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#25. If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success

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#26. Business opportunities are like buses; there's always another one coming.

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#27. A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.

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#28. There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

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#29. Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

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#30. Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

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#31. As you pursue your career, your efforts may sometimes meet with failure. Don't be discouraged
one of the best ways to learn how to do anything is to make mistakes. It took time and a lot of errors before I achieved any successes.

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#32. I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.

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#33. One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

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#34. Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

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#35. If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.

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#36. Have faith in yourself.
Think yes not no.
Live life to the full.
Never give up.

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#37. And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

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#38. I think that not relying too heavily on one bank and one bank manager is a good rule to learn.

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#39. Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

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#40. I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

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#41. Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

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#42. I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

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#43. I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.

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#44. Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

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#45. The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

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#46. If you aren't having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it's time to try something else.

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#47. Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

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#48. There is no real difference between work and play - it's all living.

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#49. When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

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#50. I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

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#51. How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

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#52. If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

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#53. Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.

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#54. I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn't return. I started the letter by saying, 'Dear Holly and

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#55. The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

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#56. I am prepared to try anything once.

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#57. You're offering a great service. People are tuning in. So continue to find great people, continue to do what you're doing. And do it better than your rivals. I know that's easier said than done ...

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#58. We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

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#59. Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

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#60. In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

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#61. Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

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#62. Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

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#63. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

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#64. 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.

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#65. We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

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#66. There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.

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#67. I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

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#68. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

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#69. Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

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#70. So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

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#71. Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

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#72. I think entrepreneurship is our natural state
a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

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#73. THE KEY TO GENERATING LOYALTY AND RISING ABOVE THE GENERAL NOISE SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHENTIC VOICE.

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#74. Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

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#75. Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.

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#76. When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.

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#77. To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

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#78. Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.

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#79. If you are seizing on a new business opportunity, deliberately move your customers' expectations up a few notches and consistently over-deliver on your promises - you will leave your competitors struggling to catch up.

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#80. In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

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#81. Doing good is good for business.

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#82. Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

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#83. I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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#84. The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers

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#85. I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

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#86. Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

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#87. Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

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#88. An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.

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#89. I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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#92. Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

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#93. Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

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#94. If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

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#95. I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

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