We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.

When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

To succeed in business you need to be original, but you also need to understand what your customers want.

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.