1,075 Quotes by Richard Branson

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

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

Business isn't about ties, suits and briefcases. It's about adventure.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

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

I love the freedom that my phone gives me.

In about three years from now, we'll have the biggest range of products in Australia, bigger than any other bank in Australia, actually.