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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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 think Chris is an astute businessman, but he is not used to running airlines. Virgin Blue needs people with airline experience.
airline passengers
We pamper our passengers like no airline pampers them.
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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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We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.
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The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.
airplane car fuel
So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.
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I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
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There are already 30 people in the world who have collected enough air miles to fly into space.
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I think it's very important that the competition authorities listen to the slightly smaller companies (and) try to create a level playing field so that the consumer gets the benefit of choice and gets the benefit of competition. ? I wish Pepsi well in that and I hope that Pepsi will not behave in the same way when we come knocking on the doors of some of the big retailers that they are in.
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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.
leave plans
Our plans for Virgin are pretty much to leave it as it is.
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I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When it broke in the press is was almost a release for her.
flying
It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.