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
adversity important self-improvement
It is important in life to turn adversity to success
years territory next
We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.
people giving enriching
Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.
fire-within important rehearsal
It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.
successful entrepreneur valuable
Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.
self-improvement talent improvement
Talent comes from experience and failure
motivation inspiration kids
If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.
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.
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.
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.
soul may littles
A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.
tough-times spirit your-future
Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.
airline-business way millionaire
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.
zero adventure phoenix
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.