Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.
Richard BransonYou can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.
Richard BransonWith space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.
Richard BransonWe'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.
Richard BransonI was trouble - and always in trouble. Aged eight I still couldn't read. In fact, I was dyslexic and short-sighted. Despite sitting at the front of the class, I couldn't read the blackboard. Only after a couple of terms did anyone think to have my eyes tested. Even when I could see, the letters and numbers made no sense at all.
Richard Branson