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.

Next quotes

• Richard Branson:

  I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

• Richard Branson:

  Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

• Richard Branson:

  We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go wi

• Richard Branson:

  My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a f

• Richard Branson:

  I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family

• Richard Branson:

  Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and

• Richard Branson:

  Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I wa

• Richard Branson:

  And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and maki

• Richard Branson:

  I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hu

• Richard Branson:

  Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first