Explore Quotes by Richard Branson

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

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. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.