Richard Branson People Quotations [Page 2]

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.

Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

When people screw up, give them a second chance.

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.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

The brand is only as good as your products, so.. if people have a good experience on Virgin Atlantic or if they have a good experience on Virgin trains or.. if they have a Virgin mobile phone and they can get straight through to our people and they're well looked after and then they'll try the next product that we launch.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a risk and chase their dreams.

I've obviously been born fortunate. I love people. I enjoy every single minute of my life.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Commitment is not letting people down. That's very important in life.

Brave people don't live forever, but cautious people don't live at all.

Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you

If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.

Taking bold climate action now has the potential to unleash the full power of business and at the same time lift millions of people out of poverty. We're the first generation to recognize this and the last generation that will have this opportunity.

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code

Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.