Richard Branson Quotes

It's gotten more open and easy to create a business on the Internet. That's a really awesome thing for entrepreneurs and for the world.

I never said I enjoy anything about using the Internet. I enjoy helping the entrepreneurs who are building this thing that I don't necessarily like or use.

There's no locality on the web - every market is a global market.

The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.

The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs.

Millennials' tech and global savvy will make them instrumental in shaping our mobile future worldwide.

The Internet and virtual reality make it easier for people to stay rooted in their communities and work for companies headquartered elsewhere. The Internet has also created countless small businesses, triggering the creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.

By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

It's a whole new world out here. The online world is like a blackboard on which, when you write, the whole world can see - and I'm thrilled about this development. I want to make full use of it.

It seems pretty clear that the Internet has an important economic role to play for China as it reaches out to the rest of the world.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

My point is, no one can stop the Internet. No one can stop that march. It doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth, though.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.