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I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. ↗

— Richard Branson

#before #business #consumer #done #especially

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. ↗

— Richard Branson

#casino #flights #get #least #lucky

Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school. ↗

— Tom Udall

#became #call #complex #first #guess

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. ↗

— Richard Branson

#between #business #dividing #dividing line #failure

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. ↗

— Richard Branson

#assets #bands #brand #careers #combination

Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#before #hoped #ignorant #international #labor

I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#certainly #comparison #daughter #deeper #else

Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision. ↗

— Benjamin Bratt

#again #being #choreographed #dance #doing

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#black #busy #crowd #flyers #handing