is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Richard Branson

All ideas are second-hand, consciously or unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them.

On 8 December 2003 we floated Virgin Blue on the stock market for A$2.3 billion. A$2.3 billion! This, the same airline we’d started with A$10 million only four years earlier, and had rejected a A$250 million offer for only two years previously.

Why did the sheep bells of the Falkland Islands ring louder than the church bells of Jerusalem?’ —