1,075 Quotes by Richard Branson

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

We're going where no one has gone before.

When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.

I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family. I'm also in a relationship that's been really good. Lasted a long time. We've got wonderful kids from that relationship, and they've had the benefit of being together. It's fantastic to have that sort of togetherness. It's a rarity these days.

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.