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.

Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up