Richard Branson Quotes

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

What matters is: Are you profitable? Are you building something great? Are you taking care of your people? Are you treating your customers well?

Your employees come first. And if you treat your employees right, guess what? Your customers come back, and that makes your shareholders happy. Start with employees and the rest follows from that.

I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

What resonates with people is that it feels like you actually are thinking of them.

Why did I start with them? Why do any of us choose one company over another as an employer? The money? At the beginning they all offer more or less the same and no one know how it will go after that. I guess it is often not so much your prospects at a particular firm, because these are essentially unknowable, but whether people will think you have done well to get the job there, that determines you choice. That was largely it in my case. It was really the prestige. They gave good letterhead.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

I think sometimes people forget how to be nice to people. I try not to let it get to me.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

Surgery has trained me better than anything else to connect with people.

You know I think if the people who work for a business are proud of the business they work for, they'll work that much harder, and therefore, I think turning your business into a real force for good is good business sense as well.

The way we still essentializ, we're constantly essentializing people as merely poor, or merely other, and in the end you can't have a relationship with people. I think the biggest job of adulthood is to learn to imagine other people complexly.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.