Richard Branson Quotes

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

It's always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, 'I don't need any more money. I'm good.' Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you're crazy when you say you don't need any more money. Who says that?

Money without brains is always dangerous.

People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.

I'm very lucky because less than one percent of boxers get out of the game financially secure.

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I've made some investments during my career that I'm happy with, so my life, talking financially, is definitely OK.

Floyd has showed me that he's set up with real estate, businesses, and investments.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

I must know every aspect of my personal finances. Managing your money will help you make your money work for you.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

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I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

He that is rich is wise.