The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

If young people do see me as an example (I'm very flattered if they do!) I hope it is as someone who will go out there and live life to the full.

Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Actually, we did a fun April Fools' thing with Google a couple of years ago, which we called Virgle. And we looked for volunteers to go on a one-way trip to Mars.

Learn to raise capital by any means necessary. That's your primary job as an entrepreneur. You must continually raise capital from family and friends, banks, suppliers, customers and investors.

If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it. You must love what you do.