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
Richard Branson quotes about
mistake making-mistakes reputation
Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.
golf thinking two
Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.
listening customers
Success Comes from listening to your customer.
india west helping
India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.
differences creative survival
Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.
brands
In the beginning it was just about the business - now it's about the brand.
determination opportunity luck
Luck is when determination meets opportunity
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.
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.
conclusion direction forward future group map paul toll
We look forward to a speedy conclusion to the takeover and working with Paul Little and the Toll group to map out the future direction of Virgin Blue.
gone
We're going where no one has gone before.
land
We told him he had to land alive.
alive land
We told him he had to land alive. He actually had to land alive, because if he didn't land alive he wouldn't get the record.