Richard Branson Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Team

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Losing My Virginity”, p.270, Random House

• If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Talking, People

• As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Running, Art

• You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

  Richard Branson

  Running, Brave, Forever

• You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fall, Successful

• I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

  Richard Branson

  Leadership, Running, Dream

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

• The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Powerful, Innovation

• If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Wells

  "QFinance: The Ultimate Resource". Book published by Bloomsbury, 2009.

• I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fighting, Order

• If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Powerful, Employee

• I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Poor Quality

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

• Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Thinking, Careers

• My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Mother, Running

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions on Business Philosophy", www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

• My number one rule in business, and in life, is to enjoy what you do. Running a business involves long hours and hard decisions; if you don't have the passion to keep you going, your business will more than likely fail. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Passion, Numbers

  "Richard Branson’s Three Most Important Leadership Principles". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.mittimes.com. September 25, 2014.

• Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Successful

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

• I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fun, Business

  "Richard Branson: Five Questions On Business Philosophy" by Richard Branson, www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2010.

• Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Survival, Unnecessary

• Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Team, Heart

  Richard Branson (2008). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin Books Limited

• Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

  Richard Branson

  Running, Differences, People

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Sep 30, 2012

• One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Giving, Advice

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

• People who work for me are working for what I believe in. The leaders who run our companies do so on the basis of those who came first and who said, "A company is its people." I hope my companies are run on the basis of praising their workers and looking for the best in them, not criticizing them. In the same way that you water a plant and it sprouts leaves, people flourish when you praise them.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Believe, Water

• Whether your sport of choice is running, cycling, kite surfing, etc. start moving and stay moving! It will give you energy and help you stay young.

  Richard Branson

  Sports, Running, Moving

  Source: in.askmen.com

• I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I wanted to edit a magazine. There wasn't a national magazine run by students, for students. I didn't like the way I was being taught at school. I didn't like what was going on in the world, and I wanted to put it right.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, School

• To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

  Richard Branson

  Running, Successful, Being Successful

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

• Find somebody else to run your business on a day-to-day basis.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Bases, Day To Day

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