If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Business
To me business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.
—Richard Branson
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Business, Entrepreneurs, Opportunity
What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire?. Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Money
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family… my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Rent, Think, Parents, Change, Family
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.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Customers
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
—Richard Branson
Topics: Challenges
When people screw up, give them a second chance.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Forgiveness, Acceptance
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
—Richard Branson
Topics: Entrepreneurs
Most “necessary evils” are far more evil than necessary.
—Richard Branson
I’ll fight tooth and nail to make something succeed. But the moment I realize it’s not going to succeed, the next day, I will have forgotten about it. I will just move on to the next venture.
—Richard Branson
It’s easy to become a millionaire—start out as a billionaire, and then buy an airline.
—Richard Branson
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