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"Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway."

People, America, Play, Saying

"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."

Life, Money, Work, People

"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."

Life, Experience, Learning, Years

"I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world."

Building, 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."

Force, Wind

"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records."

Music, Careers, Name, Names

"We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone."

Computer, Internet, Will, Years

"We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market."

Innovation, Result

"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."

People, Beds, Night, Sleep

"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."

Battle, Now, Pretty, Years

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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Leadership, Americans, Right

"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish Inventor

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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

Leadership, Battle, Eyes, Fire, Rank

"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

Leadership, Power, State

"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."

Ronald Reagan, American President

Leadership, Growth, Entrepreneurs, States, United

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

Theodore Roosevelt, American President

Leadership, Character, Usefulness, Vote

"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."

David Brinkley, American Journalist

Leadership, Being, Pretty

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."

Martin Luther, German Leader

Leadership, First