Richard Branson: The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity

Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.

Richard Branson

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One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

Richard Branson

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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

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Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

Richard Branson

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I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

Richard Branson

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I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying "yes" than by sayings "no".

Richard Branson

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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.

Richard Branson

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If people are crazy enough to dare, impossible things happen.

Richard Branson

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Past failures unlock future successes

Richard Branson

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Believe in yourself and back yourself to come out on top. A fulfilling career is waiting for those brave enough to find it.

Richard Branson

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

Richard Branson

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The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

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We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

Richard Branson

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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.

Richard Branson

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I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Richard Branson

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

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Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

Richard Branson

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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, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.

Richard Branson

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

Richard Branson

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You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

Richard Branson

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