turned down billion dollar tour offer

twice as likely to be unemployed

"Sometimes I think I should go around with my CV or my grades tattooed on my forehead.”

When you learn that two thirds of the British public feel uncomfortable just talking to a person with a disability, you quickly realize why people with disabilities fail to receive the same employment opportunities as many others.

- Sir Richard Branson's Virgin

biggest secret

"I'm shy."
- Sir Richard Branson

failuretunity

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."
- Richard Branson

jazz spirit

"If you don't improvise, you disappear very quickly."
- Sir Richard Branson

breaking the taboo

office

Where Sir Richard Branson gets work done on Necker Island.

most stately of stately houses

Stowe House was the most impressive estate built in Britain in the 18th century. With the fall of the Duke of Buckingham, it eventually became a private boarding school, whose alumni includes Sir Richard Branson and David Niven, who when asked why he was always so cheerful remarked "Well, old bean, life is really so bloody awful that I feel it’s my absolute duty to be chirpy and try and make everybody else happy too."