It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.

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.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.