Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.
The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers.
If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you’ve got.
Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.
Succeeding in business is all about making connections.
If you take care of your workers they’ll take care of your business.
Success comes from delegating, risk-taking and having a good TEAM!
Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we’ve embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.
I believe the best social program is a job.
If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won’t require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.
Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Everything is based on a simple rule: Quality is the best business plan, period.
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.