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"You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."
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"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."
"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
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"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."
"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."
"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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"The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world."
"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
"A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."
"And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge."
"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on."
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