Richard Branson

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.

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

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

A touch of the jitters sharpens the mind, gets the adrenaline flowing and helps you to focus.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

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

The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No.1.

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence.

One client didn’t want to go out so had us build him a nightclub in his house.

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

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

I actually do think you’re seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that’s a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what’s going on with them.

Only one thing makes prosperity, and that is work.

I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.

I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.