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"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."
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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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"Creators always have an advantage because they make the stuff we consume."
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"In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing."
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"If there seems no answers then create and apply them."
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"Ingenuity requires creativity."
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"If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude."
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Personal Development
"I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better."
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"Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways."
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"We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press."
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"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
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"We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track."
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