Richard Branson Quotes

Richard Branson (34)

Birth:	18th July, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businessman

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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of
more than 400 companies. His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, he set up an audio-record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

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• There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions in a way that serves the world and you.

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  A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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  Tags in Fun, Instincts

• Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

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• Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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• 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.

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• And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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• I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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• I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

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• I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

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• I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

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• I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

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  Tags in Feeling, Before

• I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

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  Tags in School, Left

• Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

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• Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

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• I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

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  Tags in Wanted, Interested

• My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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  Tags in Determined, Independent

• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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• Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

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  Tags in Occasionally, Saying, Play

• So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, mayb

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• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

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