Richard Branson Quotes

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

I grew up in this poor place, with very limited circumstances, at about 16 years of age was sent by my family to work, and instead of remaining in the position into which I was sent, I somehow worked my way out of it without any help from anyone, just luck.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.