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
stay-strong brave forever
The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge...The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.
strong regret believe
Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems. I do however believe that there is a strong argument for students who have an idea they are passionate about to just try and turn it into a reality. I fell into this category and I don't regret not going to University.
strong helping-others people
The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.
strong wall wind
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.
running art strong
As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.
country strong goal
We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.
adventure
In any adventure like this, there are always uncertainties.
club expect flight flying gives members save space time
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.
impeccable millions people priorities record
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.
enormous fantastic sad sympathy
We have enormous sympathy for him. He has done a fantastic job. It is sad they have to come down so soon.
atlantic british build business combat dirty famous felt financial muscle needed prove proved record run successful tricks whereas
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.
anywhere cape coast east
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.
family
I've been very lucky. I come from a very close family.
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.