The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

I felt uneasy about making the rapid decisions I have always made, and wondered whether every decision should be formally ratified and minuted at a board meeting.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.