Richard Branson
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Bransonis an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth18 July 1950
CityLondon, England
success fun moving
Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.
running business poor-quality
I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.
marijuana long smoking
Smoking marijuana, as long as you leave the nicotine out of it, is certainly no more damaging than having a drink, and I suspect better for you than having a drink.
firsts looks staff
Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow
inspirational business people
You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.
team creating people
I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.
names people faces
If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.
caring people leader
Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
running fall successful
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.
people limits satisfaction
Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.
business character want
Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.
inspirational business classroom
Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.
giving people focus
It's all about finding and hiring people smarter than you. Getting them to join your business. And giving them good work. Then getting out of their way. And trusting them. You have to get out of the way so YOU can focus on the bigger vision. That's important. And here's the main thing....you must make them see their work as a MISSION.
space determined astronaut
Every single astronaut who has come back from space comes back determined to do more to protect it.