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"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."
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"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
Business
"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
"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
"I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator."
Leadership
"Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank."
Blood
"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
Rules
"I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer."
Business
"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
"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
Entrepreneurship
"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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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."
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"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."
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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
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"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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