Richard Branson

If you’re bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don’t think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I really believe that being in the moment is the key to happiness and success, and being constantly glued to your phone can have a big impact on your relationship.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

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

Building a brand may be more important than building a business.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

There is a time and place for all things to be successful. There is fate and destiny and opportunity, and you need all three things in line at the same time.

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.

What right have you, save service to the world, to think that other men’s labor should contribute to your gains?

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

I really don’t retain information – by the time I arrive wherever I’m going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

There’s no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor.

A manufacturer is not through with his customer when a sale is completed. He has then only started with his customer. In the case of an automobile the sale of the machine is only something in the nature of an introduction. If the machine does not give service, then it is better for the manufacturer if he never had the introduction, for he will have the worst of all advertisements-a dissatisfied customer.

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

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Mark my word: A combination airplane and motor car is coming.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.