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" 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. "

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" My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again. "

Richard Branson

Moving Forward

Face

Attitude

" Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait. "

" Be willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it's possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you'll be successful. "

" Especially when you're at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they're doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it's the way I choose to bet. "

" Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do. "

" My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds. "

" 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. "

Richard Branson

Mother

Car

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

" An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty. "

" Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand. "

Richard Branson

Space

Thinking

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

Richard Branson

Business

Opportunities

" From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That's how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically. "

Richard Branson

Good

People

" I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove - there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character. "

Richard Branson

Years

Hill

" So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. "

" I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced. "

" 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. "

" In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there are opportunities waiting to be grasped by entrepreneurs. "

" Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next. "

" 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. "

" When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating. "

" All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word. "

" And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. "

" My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them. "

" A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney. "

" We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it. "

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

" The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. "

" I'm not sure how I'd survive without English Breakfast tea. Even in the Caribbean, I must drink 20 cups a day. "

" I suppose Virgin is an unusual brand in that I suspect we're the only 'way of life' brand in the world. We're one of maybe the top 30 best known brands in the world, yet if you look at the other 29, they all specialize in one area. Whether it's Google, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, etc., they all generally specialize in one area. "

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