Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and render unbiased advice.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

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.