Richard Branson Quotes

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

I guess I've just always had an entrepreneurial spirit.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to exercise because that's what people are going to want to see. That's what makes you different.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

You've got to be able to think on your own; you've got to be creative. You can't be willing to take a backseat.