Richard Branson Quotes

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

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

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.