You can't do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can't go wrong.

There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who’s new to the business.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

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!

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.