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
party together evening
If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.
future moon limits
We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.
advice survival needs
Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.
running survival unnecessary
Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.
inspirational being-yourself business
Remember it's OK to be yourself.
focus competition survival
Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.
inspirational business communication
Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.
airplane car fuel
So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.
running successful being-successful
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running
survival complaints customers
Listen to the customer's complaint and act fast.
inspirational business life-is
Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!
dirty past thinking
And in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.
names people mind
All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you.
outsourced ifs
Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.