Richard Branson Quotes

I run the largest survey company in the world. It just so happens to be the second-largest company run by someone in my house.

You know, I'm behind my company. My company has been a big part of my life. And it's not that I been buying a company or that my father bought a company and tried to do something out of it. You know, it's not the same thing. It's my name, it's my company, it's my signature.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.

I won't get involved in any business. And my children, they have their own little businesses to take care of

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

I always saw myself working for the family business.

From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.

Because entrepreneurship is so hard and does take so long to build something great, you do have to build an environment that you yourself as an entrepreneur want to work in for the next 20 years.

I work hard, and I'm very separate from what my parents do.

Whenever I invest, I invest in the person as well as the business.

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.

You know who it is? It's me in 10 years. So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, 'So, are you a hero?' And I was like, 'not even close. No, no, no.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because my hero's me at 35.' So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero's always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna attain that. I know I'm not, and that's just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a different direction. I built Trump Tower in Manhattan, the most luxurious building in the world. It's not going to be easy for my son, but maybe it shouldn't be easy. Life is, after all, a test.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies we dream of and build from scratch are part of us and intensely personal. They are our families. Our lives. But the entrepreneurial journey is not for everyone. Yes, the highs are high and the rewards can be thrilling. But the lows can break your heart. Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".