Choose great people and shine in their shadows

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.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store ... A bunch of ideas were bounced around, then, as we were all new to business, someone suggested Virgin. It smacked of new and fresh and at the time the word was still slightly risqué, so, thinking it would be an attention-grabber, we went with it.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

It's better to say nothing than spend 1,000 words or an hour speech saying nothing. Get to the point.