Richard Branson Quotes

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

It's always a learning experience every time I'm on set.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

When you create something that is popular, when you create a solution, you're an innovator, and you solve problems for people and they like what you have to offer, of course you automatically make money.

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.

When most people hit failure, they give up, but good entrepreneurs simply treat failure as a learning experience and use it to fuel and inform their next move.

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.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

I feel like I learn in every project.

When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that you learn what people want you to be to them.

At the end of the day, the differential, I believe, on the airline space has got to be about the product and the service that you provide. And again, I can't express that enough. That comes from people. It is a people business, and my primary focus is to get our 84,000-plus people back aligned, back engaged, and back focused on our customer.

Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

Creativity stands at the center of all education.

Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way?

As entrepreneurs, we must continue to ask ourselves 'What's next?' It takes humility to realize that we don't know everything, not to rest on our laurels and know that we must keep learning and observing.

Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.