A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Listen it makes you sound smarter.
It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.
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.
Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.
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.
What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
If your dreams don’t scare you they are too small.
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.
You don’t learn to walk by following rules, you learn by doing and by falling over.
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.
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Only a fool never changes his mind.
Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no.
We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
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.
It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.
Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.
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.
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