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.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

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

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.