Richard Branson Quotes

To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

You need to be experimental. You try things, and it is OK if they don't always work necessarily.

We have the right to go and try new things and, if those things don't work, go back to what we were doing at first.

(I) try new things and give myself permission to fail and experiment because only that way can you get really successful.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another.

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

The reason why the Wright brothers were successful wasn't because they had the most resources, but because they understood how invention works. You have to iterate quickly, and you should be prepared to fail. Because things often don't go as planned.