Richard Branson

What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

There should be rivalry between men and between business.

It took only 10 minutes to do Chelsea deal with Roman Abramovich but I had to Google him first … I wasn’t sure if Jeremy Beadle was going to jump out.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

A store’s best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

On Beverly Hills we paid too much. One hundred per cent, we did over-pay. We didn’t do our research properly.

If you love what you do, if you love going to the office, if you really like it – not just say it, but really like it – it keeps you young and energised. I really love what I do.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Investors are visionaries in some respects – they look beyond the present.

The consumer isn’t a moron. She is your wife.

We were all young and we were all inventing our careers. I was very close to Jackson, just as I’d been very close to Laura Nyro. With each person I had a unique relationship.

Success will always be measured by the extent to which we serve the buying public.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don’t make money from as a cost.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.