Richard Branson Quotes

• Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem solving.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Advice, Business

• Chance favours the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Advice, Life

  Tags in Chance

• Never go into business purely to make money. If that’s the motive you’re better off doing nothing.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Business, Money

  Tags in Better, Nothing

• Let’s change the way we think about changing the world.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Motivational

  Tags in Follow

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

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Trying

• You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules, Learn

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

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Way

• Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impulse, Idea

• Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Against, Attempt

• Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Business, Failure, Success

• We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Survived

• We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Separate, Partner, Sleep

• We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industries, Result, Market

• 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.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Internet, Access

• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industry, Music, Asset

• The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Force, Pushing, Remarkably

• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Attempt, World

• So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, mayb

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Process

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

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Delighted, Alive

Richard Branson (38)

Birth:	18th July, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businessman

About

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of
more than 400 companies. His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, he set up an audio-record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

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