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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Some of the magic will be lost now that the girls are only four. It's sad to see people so close split in this way.
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As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.
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Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
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I moved into a nice houseboat in Little Venice when I was 15 years old. I found a girlfriend called Monday and a houseboat called Friday, so I had the week sewn up.
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I'm sure if Brawn GP keep plying me with champagne and putting gorgeous Virgin girls either side of me, you never know!
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One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.
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We expect the first Virgin Galactic space flight to take place in 2008, which gives our Flying Club members time to save up all their miles.
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We are used to transporting millions of people ... transporting them safely. And we want to keep that impeccable record so. We know what our priorities are.
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I've taken a reduction in the price in order to get the deal done. We will reap our reward from the increased share price by holding our shares in this new combined company.
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We have enormous sympathy for him. He has done a fantastic job. It is sad they have to come down so soon.
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British Airways was doing everything they could do to put Virgin Atlantic out of business -- what's become famous here as the dirty tricks campaign, ... We felt that we needed the financial muscle to combat them. And I still had a lot to prove at Virgin Atlantic whereas we proved that we could, you know, build and run a successful record company.
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At some stage, we're going to need an East Coast base. If you have to set up on the East Coast somewhere, I can't think of anywhere better than Cape Canaveral.
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I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.