Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.
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.
It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
Only a fool never changes his mind.
Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.
If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
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.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.
They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.
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