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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

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

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.

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

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

Richard Branson
Running, Powerful, Employee

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Richard Branson
Running, Powerful, Innovation

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 your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.

Richard Branson
Running, Real, Moving
Interview with Jeremy Hobson, www.marketplace.org. April 27, 2012.

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

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.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

Richard Branson
Running, Passion, Successful
"Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

Richard Branson
Running, Drawing, People

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

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

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.

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

If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

Richard Branson
Running, People, Driving

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

Richard Branson
Running, Bases, Day To Day

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

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