Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 1950-07-18), Shamley Green, Surrey) is a British entrepreneur, best known for the businesses he helped create under the Virgin brand name.

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• The train was magnificent, it is built like a tank, and each carriage is built like a motor racing car with rolling bars.
  • Comments made regarding the strength of the Pendolino tilting trains in the aftermath of the Cumbria rail crash in February 2007.

• One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
  • From Richard Branson's blogg ‘Learning from mistakes’ on the Virgin Website.

• My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, “Oh God, I've got to do this today.”
  • From his interview in The Guardian newspaper, 20th September 2008

• I became an entrepreneur by mistake. Ever since then I've gone into business, not to make money, but because I think I can do it better than it's been done elsewhere. And, quite often, just out of personal frustration about the way it's been done by other people.
  • As stated in an interview with Martyn Lewis in his book, Reflections on Success (1997)

• My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
  • From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000

• Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.
  • From his interview in The Sunday Mirror, 16th January 2000.

• If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
  • Quoted by P. Greenberg, “Why JetBlue will be different,” MSNBC as cited in Gittell and O’Reilly (October, 2001) Harvard Business School Press Reprint No. 9-801-354

• I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn’t change a thing about my life.
  • In his interview with Nina Myskow for Saga magazine, July 2007