Richard Branson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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 gaurantee hit records.”

“One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.”

“My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.”

“You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.”

“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.”

“And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.”

“I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.”

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

“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.”