Richard Branson Quotes

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I've loved that. It's a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.

It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.

I love creating new things. It's kind of my job, it's what I do, and I really have fun with it.

I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.’s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn’t been done before.

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

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

Don't write for money.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

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.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

I think all of the great developers start not with the intent to make money, but with the intent to make something fun that's in their passion zone.

Founders are exceptional, and they all want to go back to creating. And I feel privileged to be able to do that.

Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.