Four Questions I’d ask Sir Richard Branson

There are a num­ber of wealthy indi­vid­u­als that I find fas­ci­nat­ing and have a deep desire to meet, just to learn from them. At the top of this list is Sir Richard Bran­son, founder of the Vir­gin empire. Here are four ques­tions I’d ask him were I given the chance:

1. What do you regard as your great­est busi­ness choice and why? — I’d ask because I think he’s had such a fas­ci­nat­ing jour­ney in busi­ness and he’s made so many choices, I sus­pect his val­ues don’t run along what money he made, and rather what his choice accom­plished for his business.
2. What is your aver­age day like? — Is there any­thing more inter­est­ing than the life of the super wealthy? He’s the head of a mas­sive con­glom­er­ate and as such he has to have some inter­est­ing insights into how to get the most out of his day. I imag­ine it involves get­ting the news con­densed by a per­sonal assis­tant, talk­ing into the phone on the drive into work, etc.
3. What do you con­sider to be the penul­ti­mate skill for mak­ing sales? — That’s really what the busi­ness comes down to. Mak­ing the sale. And so is it the gift of gab, the abil­ity to relate with oth­ers, or some­thing else?
4. When did you real­ize you were a bil­lion­aire or going to be a bil­lion­aire? — Was it a spe­cific busi­ness deal or did the day to day busi­ness drive your wealth up to where you offi­cially became a bil­lion­aire? To me, some­one quite a dis­tance from this amount of wealth, it seems like news you’d remem­ber for the rest of your life and you’d remem­ber where you were when you first heard it.