HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

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

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

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.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

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

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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 the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

One of my direct subordinates, one of my guys that worked for me, he would call me up or pull me aside with some major problem, some issue that was going on. And he’d say, ‚Boss, we’ve got this, and that, and the other thing.‘ And I’d look at him and I’d say, ‚Good.‘

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. 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.

Example is leadership.

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.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

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

The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

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

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

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.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.

When you want a thing done, ‚Don’t do it yourself‘ is a good motto for Scoutmasters.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

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.

I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.