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
But I think we will be able to appoint more directors, and the chairman.
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If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
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It was the most hairy landing I've ever been through.
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It's looking hopeful that the transaction will get done over the next couple of months.
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The best advice I got from my dad? Wear a condom.
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Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
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Screw it, just do it!
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Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
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The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.
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The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.
conflict
We've all got to do everything we can to avoid conflicts.
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New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles per hour orbitally. After we've done the space program, we will be producing supersonic planes, which will go far, far, faster than Concorde.
inspiring around-the-world way
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
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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.