Explore Quotes by Richard Branson

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?

Having colleagues nearby, whether at the beach or in a crypt, means the ideas are always flowing

Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

Above all, you want to create something you're proud of.

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.

Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

Sometimes I do wake up in the mornings and feel like I've just had the most incredible dream. I've just dreamt my life