If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

A business can be started with very little money.

Consider getting smaller in order to get bigger.

The years I would have spent at University, I spent building Student Magazine and Virgin Records. For me that was far more fun and satisfying. I have treated everyday as the University education I never had and think I learnt more about business and life than I would have at University in the process.

I was interested in creating things that I could be proud of and so, you know, I was interested in being an editor of a magazine, things that I could be proud of, and so, you know, I was interested in being an editor of a magazine, but in order to be an editor of a magazine I had to become a publisher as well. I had to pay the bills. I had to worry about the printing and the paper manufacturing and the distribution of that magazine.

Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.