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Entrepreneurship Quotes

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone."

"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."

― Richard Branson

"Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."

― Richard Branson

"Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity."

― Richard Branson

"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."

― Richard Branson

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

― Richard Branson

"Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!"

― Richard Branson

"If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you’ve got."

― Richard Branson

"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."

― Richard Branson

"We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."

― Richard Branson

"Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line."

― Richard Branson

"If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."

― Richard Branson

"You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission."

― Richard Branson

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

― Richard Branson

"Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way."

― Richard Branson

"A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better."

― Richard Branson

"Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it."

― Richard Branson

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

― Richard Branson

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

― Richard Branson

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