Richard Branson Quotes

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.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

You should not build your customer service system on the premise that your organisation will never question the whims of your clients.

I’ve been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe.

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers

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.

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

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.

The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.