Richard Branson Quotes

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Trust me: Every entrepreneur has felt like an utter loser at some point.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

I'm an entrepreneur.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

My best entrepreneurial advice is to start.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

LEARN FROM FAILURE. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn't a success, welcome to the club.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'