Richard Branson Quotes (71 Quotes)

We are definitely in the market for interesting opportunities and, while David Lloyd is not a club we're likely to be interested in as a whole, we have cast a slide rule over it and would be interested in some of the clubs.

We told him he had to land alive.

There is no one to follow, there is nothing to copy. We may even allow those aliens who landed here 50 years ago a chance to go home.

Well, I'm somebody who is just living...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right,

India is an incredibly vibrant market, which Virgin already, through Virgin Atlantic, has the pleasure of working in. I am delighted that Virgin Comics will not only help to launch the Indian comic market and spin it into the West, but will develop new and exciting talent.

We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product, ... It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

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

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

Peter Gabriel -- a Virgin artist for 20 years -- is still pre-eminent in the business. Whether the new artists will do the same is more questionable,

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.

It has been like hitting up against a solid brick wall. All day and all night long, we battled to get through it.

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.

It's incredible to get people to turn out right in the middle of no where.

What was worse -- a possible storm ahead or the 'storms' of Iraq ... We decided to risk the thunder and press on.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success. If anybody can pull it off, it will be Steve.

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world.

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.

We're going to go under the bridge.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

It already has been through the rigors of flying around the world.

He gave me a lot of very useful advice when I set up Virgin Atlantic 21 years ago. Perhaps his best advice was to make sure that I took British Airways to court before they bankrupted us -- not after, as he did.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.

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

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.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

What's the quickest way to become a millionaire Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

I am so excited by the thought of Virgin Cola taking on Coke and Pepsi in their home territory, ... I have always believed that you can never truly be an international cola until you have launched in the home of the colas -- America.

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,

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

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.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

We told him he had to land alive. He actually had to land alive, because if he didn't land alive he wouldn't get the record.

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

In any adventure like this, there are always uncertainties.

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.

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

British Airways was doing everything they could do to put Virgin Atlantic out of business -- what's become famous here as the dirty tricks campaign, ... We felt that we needed the financial muscle to combat them. And I still had a lot to prove at Virgin Atlantic whereas we proved that we could, you know, build and run a successful record company.

My dad has put his hand up and will be 90 at the time, my kids definitely want to come and if there is room for my mum she will come as well,

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.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

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.

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.