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
simple enemy fool
Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.
monday morning people
Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.
men problem solve
[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.
inspirational success encouraging
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
leadership simple engagement
If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.
inspirational success business
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
love mistake mean
We love Formula One and think Formula One's great. But we think Formula E is different. We would be making a big mistake if we tried to compete with Formula One and be similar to Formula One, we have to be radically different to Formula One to have a chance of survival. I don't mean survival by beating Formula One but co-existing complimentary to Formula One.
blood competition bleeding
Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
believe years phones
We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.
funny-things people house
The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'
spiritual purpose next
Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for business.
change thinking parent
Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.
littles little-money
A business can be started with very little money.
ideas
What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better