I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Two kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

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.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

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

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

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.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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

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.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

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.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

It wasn’t until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

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

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.

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

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

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.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

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.

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.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

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.

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.

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.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

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

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

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

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.

When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

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.