I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.

I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

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

I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.

If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.