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The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. ↗

— Richard Branson

#balloon #brick #brick wall #force #found

You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. ↗

— Richard Branson

#happen #know #never #new #something

I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ↗

— Richard Branson

#amazon #around #brand #brands #building

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. ↗

— Richard Branson

#around #i #invest #money #new

I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level. ↗

— Edie Falco

#both #deeply #examples #far #good

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. ↗

— Richard Branson

#airline #create #else #experience #find

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? ↗

— David Byrne

#future #instead #invest #music #past

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. ↗

— Richard Branson

#beds #double #go #introducing #night

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#appendage #bound #competing #degenerate #first

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#attitudes #blocs #center #even #form