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
leadership people innovation
Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.
thinking adults entrepreneurship
I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.
dream powerful challenges
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.
successful people entrepreneur
All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.
thinking lines sides
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.
loyal-customers keys expectations
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.
leadership passion engagement
Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.
space-flight ideas people
And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.
running fighting order
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.