So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
Life Experience Fly

About This Quote

About Richard Branson

Richard Branson was a contemporary English business magnate. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world

More quotes by Richard Branson

“I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has t...”
— Richard Branson
business creativity entrepreneurship fun

“to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running”
— Richard Branson
business entrepreneur inspirational-quotes resilience

“The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.”
— Richard Branson
employees leadership passion training

“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions in a way that serves the world and you.”
— Richard Branson
inspirational-life

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”
— Richard Branson
business

“Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.”
— Richard Branson
business
View all quotes by Richard Branson →

Related Quotes

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
— Andr Gide, Autumn Leaves
life love

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”
— Stephen Crane
life meaning purpose spirituality

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”
— Diane Ackerman
life spirituality

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracte...”
— Wassily Kandinsky
experience learning spirituality

“Because your character is always full of ambition, the news of my being locked up must have been much harder on you than it was on me. When I was arrested, it was almost a relief to know that I cou...”
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
experience selflessness spirituality

“Spiritual learning is easy when we realize and experience that everything that everyone said about spirituality is already in action within us!!! Seek within rather than outside.”
— Harrish Sairaman
experience learning seek-outside seek-within

“You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.”
— Marilyn Monroe, My Story
fly love marilyn-monroe my-story

“Those who don't jump will never fly.”
— Leena Ahmad Almashat, Harmony Letters
fly jump life opportunity

“In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.”
— Hayao Miyazaki
fly hawk life sparrow