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"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."
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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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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
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"I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"I promise you a police car on every sidewalk."
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"It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car."
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"Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don't have freedom to do anything anymore."
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"Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations."
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"Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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