Richard Branson Quotes

Whoever wins MVP, whoever wins whatever those awards are, that's not my decision.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

I don't always do what I should but I do what I gotta do.

There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs in non-league. There comes a time in your career when the pennies got to drop, where you've got to understand decisionmaking at the right, poignant moments in the game. When to pass, when to dribble, when to shoot. Game-changing moments, can you be the guy that sits there and takes the responsibility. And the great players do.

I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself.

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk ‘his life, his fortune and his sacred honor’ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Working people really amaze me. When you give them all the facts, they make the right decision every single time.

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

No one who has not had the responsibility can really understand what it is like to be President, not even his closest aides or members of his immediate family. There is no end to the chain of responsibility that binds him, and he is never allowed to forget that he is President.