If you love what you do and if you believe in what you do, others will share your enthusiasm. Passionate people find their way to the Virgin Group, and when they do, we snap them up and try to keep them within the family.

A little humour is good for the soul - regardless of how old you may be.

Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.

I want Virgin to be as well-known around the world as Coca-Cola.

We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.

I have learnt so much over my 40 years of business which would have been valuable to me when I was younger.