It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

My business is to prevent the future.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

In business, if you realize you’ve made a bad decision, you change it.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.