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 dream running
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.
fun people leader
Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.
leadership advice accepting
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.
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.
office people leader
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
leadership play people
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
leadership simple engagement
If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.
jobs offering leader
We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
leader self-improvement listeners
To be a great leader, you must be a great listener
leadership people empowering
It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.
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.
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.
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.
thinking leader world
I think business leaders all over the world should not just think of how we can make lots of money, which is fine, but to take some of the problems in the world and get out there and tackle them using business. I think that if businesses do that we can get on top of these problems.