Richard Branson Quotes

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

What you have to do is break all the rules.

Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

By all means break the rules.

I love challenging the status quo.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.