Richard Branson Quotes About Adventure

Quotes about: Adventure

• Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, Fun, Home

• Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Fun, Adventure

• We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Gone

• I am prepared to try anything once.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Trying

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.247, Random House

• I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, People, Machines

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

• Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Adventure, Problem

• I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Opportunity, Blue

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

• We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Fire, Half

• Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Long, Surfing

• It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

  Richard Branson

  Beautiful, Adventure, Wind

  "Richard Branson's Tech Essentials" by Alexandra Wolfe, www.wsj.com. September 19, 2014.

• I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

  Richard Branson

  Zero, Adventure, Phoenix

• We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Adventure, Flying

• Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

• First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Sound

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

• I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Wit

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

• "I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes."
  "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go."

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

• We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Adventure, Special

• Dream big and you will be presented with the opportunity to lead the world on an incredible adventure.

  Richard Branson

  Dream, Adventure, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Mar 04, 2017

• I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Years, Challenges

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

• I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this attitude of having fun whilst working hard is one that lends itself very well to successful entrepreneurship.

  Richard Branson

  Fun, Attitude, Adventure

• I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Thinking, Needs

  "How To Turn Your Idea Into Reality – The Richard Branson Interview". Interview with Nathan Chan, foundr.com. May 30, 2018.

• I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

  Richard Branson

  Adventure, Thinking, Different

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