Richard Branson
Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Bransonis an English business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the founder of Virgin Group, which comprises more than 400 companies...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth18 July 1950
CityLondon, England
bank bigger biggest products range three
In about three years from now, we'll have the biggest range of products in Australia, bigger than any other bank in Australia, actually.
anybody enormous guarantee pull trying
If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success. If anybody can pull it off, it will be Steve.
anywhere cape coast east
If you have to set up on the East Coast somewhere, I can't think of anywhere better than Cape Canaveral.
chose five generally goes people six start
Generally speaking, when someone goes for a record-breaking attempt, you start with five or six people in the plane. He chose to go it alone.
entered permission relieved understand
We are embarrassed to have entered the airspace without permission and relieved that they understand our position.
chinese choice emergency friends-or-friendship grateful
We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.
people
Two people can play at that game. Cheers!
airline passengers
We pamper our passengers like no airline pampers them.
air collected fly miles people
There are already 30 people in the world who have collected enough air miles to fly into space.
biggest danger food government interested quality return treasury
If the government go for the lowest-common-denominator approach, I don't think we will want to be involved. There's a danger the government will just go for the biggest return to the Treasury and not be interested in overcrowding issues, the quality of the food and the quality of the service.
dealt
We are disappointed at the way this was dealt with at the boardroom level.
great keeping quite
I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.
cast club david definitely interested likely market rule slide
We are definitely in the market for interesting opportunities and, while David Lloyd is not a club we're likely to be interested in as a whole, we have cast a slide rule over it and would be interested in some of the clubs.
gone
We're going where no one has gone before.