Richard Branson Quotes

Biography: Richard Branson is known for founding the Virgin Group. He launched hi... more Biography: Richard Branson is known for founding the Virgin Group. He launched his first business venture, a magazine called Student, at age 16. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly, encompassing numerous industries like music, aviation, and space travel, with Virgin Galactic becoming a frontrunner in commercial space tourism. less

"Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!""The best way of learning about anything is by doing.""Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.""If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.""Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.""Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, luckier you become.""Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.""I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.""One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.""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 years old. And if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.""Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.""Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.""And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.""Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.""Remember it’s OK to be yourself.""If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things.""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.""Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.""The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.""Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it."

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