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Going Quotes by Richard Branson
- 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…
- I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with…
- 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…
- We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world.…
- What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had…
- Unless you dream, you're not going to achieve anything.
- You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
- We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
- 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.
- ...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but,…
- There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.
- You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.
- If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
- When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business…
- Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building,…
- So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make…
- Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code
- As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you…
- I set up this magazine called Student when I was 16, and I didn't do it to make money - I did it because I…
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