100 Best Richard Branson Quotes For Business Adventure

Richard Branson approaches business with adventure, optimism, and a genuine love for people.

His quotes blend experience with charm, offering advice that’s both insightful and easy to remember.

A great read for anyone who wants to build something meaningful while enjoying the ride.

Top Richard Branson Quotes

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

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

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

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

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!

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

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

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

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

The best way of learning about anything is by doing.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’

You get the idea. Whatever business you are in, there is always room for improvement, even if it is only small improvements in certain areas.

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new.

Screw it, let’s do it!

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.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Entrepreneurial Spirit Quotes

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ~ Richard Branson

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

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. ~ Richard Branson

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple. ~ Richard Branson

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! ~ Richard Branson

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

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. ~ Richard Branson

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to. ~ Richard Branson

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. ~ Richard Branson

The best way of learning about anything is by doing. ~ Richard Branson

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. ~ Richard Branson

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. ~ Richard Branson

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’ ~ Richard Branson

You get the idea. Whatever business you are in, there is always room for improvement, even if it is only small improvements in certain areas. ~ Richard Branson

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised. ~ Richard Branson

My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long university education that I never had – every day I’m learning something new. ~ Richard Branson

Screw it, let’s do it! ~ Richard Branson

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. ~ Richard Branson

Business Adventure Quotes

If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. ~ Richard Branson

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials. ~ Richard Branson

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so. ~ Richard Branson

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. ~ Richard Branson

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better. ~ Richard Branson

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. ~ Richard Branson

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it. ~ Richard Branson

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. ~ Richard Branson

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are. ~ Richard Branson

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. ~ Richard Branson

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. ~ Richard Branson

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records. ~ Richard Branson

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep. ~ Richard Branson

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. ~ Richard Branson

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid. ~ Richard Branson

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit. ~ Richard Branson

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes. ~ Richard Branson

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important. ~ Richard Branson

I’ve been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and its capacity to bring abundant clean, sustainable energy to millions around the globe. ~ Richard Branson

I don’t think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ~ Richard Branson

Risk-Taking Quotes

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. ~ Richard Branson

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! ~ Richard Branson

Screw it, let’s do it! ~ Richard Branson

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. ~ Richard Branson

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

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. ~ Richard Branson

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. ~ Richard Branson

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. ~ Richard Branson

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes. ~ Richard Branson

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again. ~ Richard Branson

You should not be trying to create a company that will last for 100 years, but a company that people will remember positively in 100 years. ~ Richard Branson

I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. ~ Richard Branson

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit. ~ Richard Branson

I think it’s important to work hard, but I think it’s equally important to play hard. ~ Richard Branson

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies. ~ Richard Branson

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be? ~ Richard Branson

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business. ~ Richard Branson

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master. ~ Richard Branson

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living. ~ Richard Branson

Leadership Philosophy Quotes