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

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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.

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.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I got my buzz from playing.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

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.

I’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

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

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.