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
inspirational success business
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
love mistake mean
We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One.
blood competition bleeding
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
believe years phones
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.
funny-things people house
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.'
spiritual purpose next
Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.
change thinking parent
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
littles little-money
A business can be started with very little money.
ideas
What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better
sleep night people
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.
powerful doing-nothing making-money
Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.
fun different virgins
And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.
inspirational powerful optimism
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
girl men giving
As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.