Richard Branson Quotes

If you're in it for the money, there is no way you will ever make it! Never. That's not going to get you there at all. I just made fun video with my friends. That's the key.

When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.

I never went into business to make money, but I have found that if I have fun, the money will come.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

If you want something bad enough, and you're having enough fun doing it, you can accomplish it. You just got to get creative and find a way.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

All of my businesses are profitable.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.

It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Find what you love to do and you'll never work a day in your life, that's true. But also always try to fill a niche. What can you try to do that is different?

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.