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’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.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.

It’s kind of a weird process being pitched by the company you’re already with.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

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.

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.

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.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

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.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

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

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

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

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.

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

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business – I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

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

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.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

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 think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

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

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

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.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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 brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

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.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

I love big business!

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.

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.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

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.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

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