I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.