Richard Branson Adventure Quotations

I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes.

In any adventure like this, there are always uncertainties.

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.

We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

Kite surfing is a great way of keeping fit. Kiting is great because you're bouncing over the waves and you're surfing the waves. I do quite long kite surfs-50 miles in a day.

"I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we've just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes." "I'm inquisitive ... and I love a new challenge... and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go."

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.

Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.

I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.

Dream big and you will be presented with the opportunity to lead the world on an incredible adventure.

I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.