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
leave plans
Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.
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There is no one to follow, there is nothing to copy. We may even allow those aliens who landed here 50 years ago a chance to go home.
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We're going where no one has gone before.
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Our vision of the future is a complete deregulation of everything from routes and airline access rights, all the way through to changing ownership and control regulations which would allow mergers and acquisitions,
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I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.
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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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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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Statistically, there is about a 6 percent chance that in any one year of the next 10 years this becomes a person-to-person problem, and we just have to hope it is not this year.
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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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last great aviation record left inside the Earth's atmosphere.
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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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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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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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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.