There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.

The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave it a go.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.