Everything in your business can be outsourced... if you're not emotionally attached to doing it all.

Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: "Do good".

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.

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.