A Quote by Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Richard Branson

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Richard Branson
British - Businessman
Born: July 18, 1950

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Peter Shilton

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Florence Nightingale

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald R. Ford

You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.

Napoleon Hill

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald R. Ford

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Sugar Ray Leonard

If Donald Trump takes the nation backwards, we can lead as a state and move forward. It is up to us to stand in opposition to anything that would take Colorado backwards.

Cary Kennedy

It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.

Theo Epstein

There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it.

Al Gore

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here. I'm going to go there." It's just a little bit more freeing than a stand-alone procedural, where you work backwards from the end.

Veena Sud

If something is good, it doesn't go out of style every six months. The fashion wheel of today doesn't have to go as quickly as it was pushed in the 80's.

Helmut Lang

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

Ricky Hatton

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.