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Richard Branson Quotes

"If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.""A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.""I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.""Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.""Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.""My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.""Education doesn’t just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.""My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently un-achievable challenges, and trying to rise above them.""Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.""Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.""To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.""Life is a hell of a lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.""If you don’t succeed at first, there’s no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.""So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airli""Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.""Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.""Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.""There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.""You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.""Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you."