Richard Branson Quotes

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

Rule. In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions.

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a gut feeling.

I want to rely on my gut feeling. Isn't that what made great race drivers in the end?

How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.

Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.

Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.

When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.

I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.

The most successful people are often very intuitive. Consciously or unconsciously, they follow their gut feelings. Following intuition puts us in the flow - a very alive, productive, and desirable state.

Always trust your gut and your intuition will steer you right, every time.

That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.

I trust my instincts. I don't distrust them. They haven't led me astray. It's when I've made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.