Richard Branson Quotes

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

Genius is often called crazy, but crazy is never called genius. So you just have to put out the work and let the chips fall where they may.

My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

I'm also a big believer of being a scrappy entrepreneur. To be successful you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them. And that's why it's so much easier for younger people, I think, to start companies that are challenging more traditional business models than older people. Especially if you're trying to do something good.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.