Explore Quotes by Richard Branson

Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

Money is for making things happen.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

Take a chance - it's the best way to test yourself, have fund and push boundaries.

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

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.