Richard Branson Quotes

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

I'm not into business at all.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

The mercantile business did not suit me.