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
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I think Chris is an astute businessman, but he is not used to running airlines. Virgin Blue needs people with airline experience.
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Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.
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Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed. All the pomp and ceremony currently associated with wine just gets in the way of enjoying it.
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We have always felt that a company with music at its core rather than technology could do so much better for music fans. It is so user friendly that even I could use it.
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I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.
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We told him he had to land alive. He actually had to land alive, because if he didn't land alive he wouldn't get the record.
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We told him he had to land alive.
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Well, I'm somebody who is just living...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right,
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If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
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The best advice I got from my dad? Wear a condom.
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Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
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Screw it, just do it!
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Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
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The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.