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
flying
It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.
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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 went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.
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Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
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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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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 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.
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Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed. All the pomp and ceremony currently associated with wine just gets in the way of enjoying it.
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Statistically, there is about a 6 percent chance that in any one year of the next 10 years this becomes a person-to-person problem, and we just have to hope it is not this year.
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Some of the magic will be lost now that the girls are only four. It's sad to see people so close split in this way.
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I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.