Richard Branson Almost Died Last Night

NYDN- Virgin Group founder Richard Branson had a brush with death when he was flung over the handlebars of his bicycle and fell head first onto the pavement near his home in the British Virgin Islands. “I really thought I was going to die,” the media mogul wrote in a statement on Virgin’s website which was posted along with grisly photos of the wreck’s bloody aftermath. Branson, 66, had been cycling Monday evening with two of his children, Holly and Sam, on Virgin Gorda island as they trained for the month-long “Virgin Strive Challenge,” a charity hiking, biking and swimming challenge through Italy planned for the first week of September. Virgin Gorda is less than four miles from Branson’s privately-owned Necker Island.

While peddling down a hill towards the island’s Leverick Bay, the business magnate hit a speed bump — referred to with his British-ism “sleeping policeman”— causing him to lose control.

“The next thing I knew, I was being hurled over the handlebars and my life was literally flashing before my eyes,” the British entrepreneur wrote. His mangled bicycle was flung over the side of a nearby cliff and recovered later.

I will never be a filthy rich person because I do not understand what motivates filthy rich people.

My worldview is this. If I have this

then I would never do any activity that might potentially make me end up like this

It’s really that simple. Why risk dying when you have soooooooo much money? You have so much to lose. If I had 5 billion dollars in the bank I wouldn’t do anything where I might end up dead. Now you’re probably saying, “But Trent, just about anything can kill you. So you’re saying you’d just sit around your giant mansion all day and watch Netflix?” Yes I would. You know the scene in Office Space where they’re talking about what they’d do with a million dollars? Of course you do. Peter Gibbons says he would sit on his ass and do absolutely nothing. That’s me. That’s also why guys like me and Peter will never be rich (at least not legally). Cause rich people are programmed to keep doing things even after they’ve made it. It’s what made them rich in the first place. It’s what makes Richard Branson continue to do crazy shit. So without that bike crash, Branson doesn’t have 5 billion dollars if that makes any sense. Still batshit crazy though.