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"Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."
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"People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they're not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we've fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter."

"Starting and profitably running a business is not just some achievement, it is heroism."

"Start lifting your brand off the ground with an excelling mentality becoming best at what you do. You can't afford to be an average person although you may have begun from a level below average."

"Make no mistake: if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you simply can't do it on your own. This is a nonnegotiable!"

"Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice."

"Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit."

"Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission."

"Being an entrepreneur is like being a pirate. Go for the booty and discover new, uncharted lands."

"Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it."

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
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"I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are."

"With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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