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 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.
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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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It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.
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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.
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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.
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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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We are embarrassed to have entered the airspace without permission and relieved that they understand our position.
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We are effectively in an emergency situation. But we are friends with the Chinese people, and this is a sporting event. We have no choice but to go over China, and we would be enormously grateful if they let us in.