Richard Branson Quotes

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

If you knew me before Myspace, you'd probably thought I'd have been a scholar teaching philosophy in a university my whole life. If you met me before college, you'd probably have thought I'd be a musician for my entire life.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

I had had no aspirations to be a filmmaker or a writer.

From the time I was in elementary school, I wanted to work in the family business.

I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'

I think timing is everything. I have no regrets in my career. I've been able to make a name for myself and build my own brand.

I never wanted to be an engineer.

You'd never plan a career like I've had.

I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.

One day, I just hit a point where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life, with my career?' I have all of these little things going on, but what am I going to really do? And for me, I saw longevity in acting.

There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

I definitely would like to run my own businesses by the time I'm 27, maybe, and then come away from the spotlight.