Richard Branson Quotes

• Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in ridiculous, Balance

• Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occasionally, Saying, Play

• So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, mayb

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Learning, Process

• The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Attempt, World

• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industry, Music, Asset

• We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Internet, Access

• Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Delighted, Alive

• Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Business, Failure, Success

• We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Industries, Result, Market

• We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Separate, Partner, Sleep

• 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.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Against, Attempt

• The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Force, Pushing, Remarkably

• We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pretty, Survived

• With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lucky, Way

• Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it’s fun to be able to deliver it.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Impulse, Idea

• You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rules, Learn

• You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happen, Trying
• 

  Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming

  Richard Branson

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Another, Like

Richard Branson (38)

Birth:	18th July, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businessman

About

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder and chairman of Virgin Group of
more than 400 companies. His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, he set up an audio-record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. Branson's Virgin brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.

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