Richard Branson Quotes

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

Find somebody else to run your business on a day-to-day basis.

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.

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Well, you know, I love being an entrepreneur and when I did 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Mr. Trump, he taught us a lot about starting businesses.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

My expertise is running businesses.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

We were the leaders of a company at the age of 15 with lawyers, tax advisers and managers around us, all on our payroll. A huge chunk of responsibility rested on our shoulders, which at the same time was a good thing since we hate superiors.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

The more affiliates I have the more I can sit back and let my brown belt and black belts do the work.