1,075 Quotes by Richard Branson

I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.

In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

But I think we will be able to appoint more directors, and the chairman.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.