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.

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

Sometimes miracles come in pairs.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

I had no plans to be an entrepreneur. I just wanted to be a journalist and write for a magazine. At 15, I just decided to leave school and launch a national student magazine.

There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be.