Richard Branson Quotes

Each one of our ideas should benefit the people with less power than us.

Either you fight for everybody, or you're really just fighting for yourself and people like you.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

I love life and people, so I guess I want to help anyone I can live the fullest, most wonderful life possible.

I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

God doesn't want his people to go second-class.

No religion will ever make me forget the condition of our people in this country...No God, no religion, no nothing will make me forget it until it stops, until it's elimitnated. I want to make that point clear.

Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.

You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.