Richard Branson Quotes

I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output.

I don't give my employees hours - some of them come in at 7 A.M., some at 10 A.M., some stay until 6 P.M. or midnight. They have that freedom to come and go as they wish, although they all put in more hours than your 9 to 5.

At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

Never apologize. Never explain. Just get the thing done, and let them howl.

I don't take time off.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

For me, going home at 5:30 is as much about my own choices, but also giving my team those choices, too.

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

If you just focus on producing good outcomes, all that other stuff sorts itself out.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.

If you are working from your inbox, you are working on other people’s priorities.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.

Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way.

People work better when they are afforded to be themselves

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

If people would reflect that one can only do one thing at a time and therefore there is never more than one thing to do at a time, there would be less fatigue in the world.

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.