I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. Its done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. – Richard Branson
Im 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
Well, I think that theres a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, youre likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. – Richard Branson
The funny thing is people wont let me pay for things. Ill be in a restaurant and the manager will say, Oh no, its on the house. – Richard Branson
In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime – responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors – has been removed in itself is a positive development. – Jose Ramos-Horta