I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

A company is people … employees want to know… am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.