Explore Quotes by Richard Branson

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

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

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

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.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.