49 Richard Branson Quotes To Enrich Your Life

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

Life

  

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!

  

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

  

The brave may not live forever – But the cautious do not live at all

  

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

Yourself

  

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

  

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

Like

  

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

  

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

  

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

Life

  

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

  

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

Life , Think , Time

  

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

Time

  

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Never

  

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

  

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

  

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

  

I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

  

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

  

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.” Sir

  

The best motto to follow is ‘Nothing ventured; nothing gained’.

  

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

Never

  

How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

  

Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients.

  

Hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.

  

I was in a round the world hot-air balloon race. Before I left, I wrote a long letter to my children, in case I didn’t return. I started the letter by saying, ‘Dear Holly and

  

Listen – it makes you sound smarter

  

Cover the downside.

  

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.

  

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

  

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

  

Success for me is whether you have created something that you can be really proud of.

Me

  

Screw it. Let's do it.

  

The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn’t matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, ‘The beginning is the most important part of any work.

  

Is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  

In future just remember one thing: you’re guaranteed to miss every shot you don’t take.

  

A living. Without Jonny, Student almost fell to pieces.

  

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

Never

  

I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.

  

Try everything once. Except incest and folk dancing.’ Sir Thomas Beecham

  

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

  

Keeping it short goes a long way.

  

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

Yourself

  

If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it's time to try something else.

Like , Time

  

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

  

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Me , Trying

  

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

  

It’s so much better, where possible, to try and forgive offenders and give them a second chance, just like my mother and father did so often with me as a child.

Like , Me