I think that you're going to get so much more out of life if you just say yes at every opportunity.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

With space travel, [it's] no different. You know, in 1990 I read the name Virgin Galactic Airways. Loved the name. And set out to try to find an engineer or rocket scientist in the world who could build a safe, reusable rocket that could take people to and from space and we could start a whole new era of commercial space travel.

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing.

It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.