All RICHARD BRANSON Quotes about “Adventure”

“Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?”
“Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!”
“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.”
“I am prepared to try anything once.”
“I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.”
“Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have had a lot of fun pushing the boundaries on my balloon and kitesurf adventures, breaking some world records in the process, and I think this attitude of having fun whilst working hard is one that lends itself very well to successful entrepreneurship.”
“I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.”
“I think because I have great difficulty saying the word, 'no,' almost every day's a different adventure.”
“Dream big and you will be presented with the opportunity to lead the world on an incredible adventure.”

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