Richard Branson
We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.Collection: Conflict
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.Collection: Leadership
We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.Collection: Fun
No failure means no risk, which means nothing newCollection: Mean
I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make things happen. Each day I work through these lists, and that sequence of calls propels me forward.Collection: Ideas
The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.Collection: Regret
You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!Collection: Running
When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The flaws you see in others are actually a reflection of yourself.' That taught me to pay close attention when I looked at others.Collection: Mother
Of course an individual can make a huge difference but it is when those individuals come together with like-minded souls that they can change the world for ever and importantly for the better.Collection: Differences
Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.Collection: Mistake
One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.Collection: Inspiring
Mentorship is key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits.Collection: Keys
Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.Collection: Inspiring
If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.Collection: Running
Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.Collection: Inspirational
Running a business is making a difference in people's livesCollection: Running
I think the thing about capitalism is it's an evil necessity, capitalism. Communism has been tried and failed, and socialism, that doesn't work very well. Capitalism works, but the problem about capitalism is it does mean that a few individuals become very wealthy. Therefore, I think those individuals have enormous responsibility to redistribute that wealth either by creating new businesses or creating new jobs and making sure that money just doesn't lie in a bank account for future generations.Collection: Jobs
Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.Collection: Dream
Doing good is good for business.Collection: Doing Good
The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.Collection: Destiny
I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.Collection: Night
A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish. That's a critical attribute of a leader.Collection: Flower
Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.Collection: Inspirational
You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.Collection: Life
Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.Collection: Hard Work
I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.Collection: Fun
Many assume my business success has brought me happiness. But the way I see it, I am successful because I am happy.Collection: Successful
With all my employees, I listen to them, trust in them, believe in them, respect them and let them have a go! I never believe I know better than they do and have been fortunate over the years to build up a very strong management team whom I can trust and take advice from.Collection: Strong
You must have the courage to trust your instincts and be ready to question what other people don't. If you do that, you can seize opportunities that others would miss. Believe in yourself, and use everything you can - including the obstacles - to propel you along the road to success. Who knows what you might achieve?Collection: Believe
If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.Collection: Inspirational
A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.Collection: People
Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.Collection: Inspirational
Past failures unlock future successesCollection: Past
Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.Collection: Passion
Succeeding in business is all about making connectionsCollection: Connections
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.Collection: Change
Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.Collection: Good Life
When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!Collection: Struggle
Remember the to-do list but don't forget the to-be list.Collection: Lists
To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.Collection: Mean
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.Collection: Airline Business
The Virgin brand is not a product like Coca-Cola or Famous Grouse whisky. it's an attitude and a way of life to many. That attitude is about giving customers a better time and better value in a fun way that embraces life and seeks to give the customers something new.Collection: Fun
To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.Collection: Running
I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.Collection: Adventure
It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.Collection: Opportunity
Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!Collection: Tape
As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.Collection: Thinking
Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.Collection: Beautiful
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.Collection: Government