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
hard-work thinking two
It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.
adversity important self-improvement
It is important in life to turn adversity to success
self-improvement talent improvement
Talent comes from experience and failure
fall brave faces
Be bold, brave and not afraid to fall on your face and ultimately you will succeed
art risk protect
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
mean risk no-failure
No failure means no risk, which means nothing new
dream risk impossible
Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.
successful market-leaders dna
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.
mind meetings i-can
I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them
people greed leader
We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.
philosophy people parent
My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.
moving fighting thinking
I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you've done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.
success leadership knowing
What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.
success fun believe
I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.