Richard Branson Quotes

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Share your profits with all your associates, and treat them as partners. In turn, they will treat you as a partner, and together you will all perform beyond your wildest expectations.

Business is a team sport.

I was just one part of a great team.

I just don't want to do well, I want the team to do well.

I owe my success to all my teammates. It is the result of the team work.

You have to know that success is greater when it's shared.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

I believe less in my ability & more in the ability of the one who comes to meet me. That's the speciality of my work style.

One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world.

I believe that as an entrepreneur, when you share success, it grows.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed. Some people feel this is like shooting themselves in the foot - why aid someone else in creating a competitive advantage? I don't look at it that way. Helping someone else look good doesn't make me look worse. In fact, it often improves my own performance, particularly in stressful situations.

We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds.

That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

We owe our success to them, and also to the fact that, as the saying goes, two 'Eds' are better than one.

We all can't shine at the same time.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.