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 am so excited by the thought of Virgin Cola taking on Coke and Pepsi in their home territory, ... I have always believed that you can never truly be an international cola until you have launched in the home of the colas -- America.
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I am slightly biased, but I think it is an incredible achievement -- the last great aviation record left.
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I am sorry to have let people down.
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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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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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Two people can play at that game. Cheers!
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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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My dad has put his hand up and will be 90 at the time, my kids definitely want to come and if there is room for my mum she will come as well,
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Obviously we are disappointed about not making it when we had it in our grasp,
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Peter Gabriel -- a Virgin artist for 20 years -- is still pre-eminent in the business. Whether the new artists will do the same is more questionable,
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So if we were to set up base in this area, I think you would find that it would bring a lot of people to the area to watch the flights as well as fly.
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There's obviously ... pressure on yields because of the fuel prices.