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.