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
adventure days greatest last seven
I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.
adventure
In any adventure like this, there are always uncertainties.
fun adventure gone
We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
adventure fire half
We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.
adventure people machines
I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.
jobs fun adventure
Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!
fun adventure home
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?
mistake adventure flying
We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.
zero adventure phoenix
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.
beautiful adventure wind
It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.
adventure long surfing
Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.
fun adventure thinking
"I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes." "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go."
fun adventure special
We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
adventure thinking different
I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.