Richard Branson Quotes

Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

I'm proud of my kids, they are doing what they want to do.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, 'No, you've got it all wrong!' I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked into that Hollywood thing.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

Eventually, I'll go back to acting, but for right now, my children are the most important thing in the world to me.

I love what I do, I can't imagine doing anything else, but ultimately, my goal is to be happy and have a family. That's my life.

At the end of the day, you realize that this is important stuff, but it isn't as important as how my kids feel about me. That's how I'm going to measure my success - not how I did as counsel to the president or as attorney general. How did I do as a dad?

One of the most important things that I want for my kids is I want them to live. You know, I want them to live to see 21 and beyond.

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

The best part of my life is having my kids.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

My children are my priority and always have been.

My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.