A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

People flourish if they’re praised.

My people are at the core of everything I do, and I recognize the importance of giving them the flexibility to balance work around their personal lives.

I was a risk-taker as a young man, and I don't regret it. I'm not adventurous in quite the same way now, but I still love the challenge of testing myself to the limits, flying around the world, or seeing if I can be the first to fly a balloon across the Atlantic, or trying to take people into space at an affordable price in an environmentally friendly way. I'll be going into space with three generations of my family!

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.