I think sometimes when you come from a conservative background, you want to rebel a little bit. I dropped out of school at 15 and learned early in life that saying yes was a lot more fun than saying no. If you have the opportunity to explore the skies and attempt something people haven't done before - well, I was damned if I was going to sit around watching television while someone else was doing it.

First and foremost, any business proposal I like must sound fun.

People who think and say we more often than I are a lot more likely to succeed.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

We have a business that some people feel pollutes, and I happen to agree with them. ... And so on the basis of trying to do good and, you know, hopefully turn a profit, what we did was we pledged that we'd put all the profits from our airline business into trying to develop clean fuels.

I personally don't believe anything is impossible. With enough determination and effort, almost everything is possible.

Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.