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
stars feelings aviation
There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.
business vision world
To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.
decision sometimes
Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.
team risk good-team
Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!
change stories revision
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.
risk firsts mike
The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.
commitment successful imagination
Values cannot be speedily forgotten if it is inconvenient or commercially expedient. Values have to have meaning and longevity; otherwise they are valueless. You cannot embrace innovation up to a point or only sometimes. Branding demands commitment; commitment to continual re-invention; striking cords with people to stir their emotions; and commitment to imagination. It is easy to be cynical about such things, much harder to be successful.
self-improvement improvement being-the-best
Be the best at what you do
leader self-improvement listeners
To be a great leader, you must be a great listener
people priorities benefits
... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.
success home school
When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.
dream thinking ideas
Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized
decision boards made
I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.
beautiful children hands
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.