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Management gems from Richard Branson

October 3, 2008

'Quickest way to be a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet'

  • With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
  • If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success. You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
  • What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
  • Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

    Image: Branson (L) and designer Burt Rutan hold up a model of a spaceship. Branson's Virgin Galactic is one of several commercial enterprises currently competing to offer flights to space. | Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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