Richard Branson Quotes
"If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.""Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.""Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, luckier you become.""Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.""I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.""One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.""I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was years old. And if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.""Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.""Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.""And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.""Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.""Remember it’s OK to be yourself.""If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things.""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.""Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.""You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.""Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.""You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.""My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.""Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide."