Richard Branson Quotes

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

To act with confidence beyond the range of familiar beacons and to overcome society’s resistance requires aptitudes that are present in only a small fraction of the population.

I've realized that I've pioneered many things and have been a front-runner in a lot of things. I did many things ahead of time.

People who are their own entity and aren't afraid to be who they are can move a nation. I believe the height of my career is going to be during the start of a revolution.

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.

Over the past decade... while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual,' I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

We need role models who are going to break the mold.

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

Bruce is the man. He was definitely ahead of his time.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.