Richard Branson Quotes

I don’t believe it can be taught as if it were a recipe. There aren’t ingredients and techniques that will guarantee success. Parameters exist that, if followed, will ensure a business can continue, but you cannot clearly define our business success and then bottle it as you would a perfume. It’s not that simple: to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running; and, if you have a good team round you and more than your fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can’t guarantee it just by following someone else’s formula. Business is a fluid, changing substance.

about enjoying life to the fullest.

muy importante vivir en el hoy.

I called up Coca-Cola and told them that Pepsi had just booked a big advertisement but that the back page was still free. I called up the Daily Telegraph and asked them whether they would prefer to advertise before or after the Daily Express. Another tack was to ask an innocuous question that they couldn’t easily deny: ‘Are you interested in recruiting the highest-calibre school-leavers and university graduates?’ No personnel manager would ever admit that they were looking for mediocre recruits. ‘Then we’re publishing just the magazine for you …

If you go around the world saying that, in order for the world to survive you have to make huge changes in your way of life, it does help if you yourself walk the walk and talk the talk.

(something that reads the same backwards as forwards) I have ever seen. It reads, ‘A man, a plan, a canal – Panama.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak

Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.

Why did the sheep bells of the Falkland Islands ring louder than the church bells of Jerusalem?’ —

I have always believed that the way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers, and that people flourish when they are praised.” Sir

estado tan peligroso que consiste en creer que uno está haciendo bien las cosas si no está peor que la competencia.

mismo principio aplica para las actitudes positivas de la gente: no se puede entrenar la actitud: hay que contratarla.

never just try to make money. Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that’ - Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Inc.