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...
Richard BransonIn a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
Richard BransonAnd from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.
Richard BransonAnd in the process, we have come up with fuels - algae-based fuels, isobutanol-based fuels and other fuels - that we think will power the planes in the future so that, you know, by 2020 I hope that our planes will be powered on fuels that are clean fuels and are not polluting the environment so that we'll have a green airline and an airline that actually has fuels that will be hopefully cheaper than the dirty fuels of the past. So [we're] doing good and also turning a profit at the same time.
Richard BransonI think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.
Richard BransonEntrepreneursh ip is not about getting one over on the customer. Itโs not about working on your own. Itโs not about looking out for number one. Itโs not necessarily about making a lot of money. It is absolutely not about letting work take over your life. On the contrary, itโs about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
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