Being dyslexic can actually help in the outside world. I see some things clearer than other people do because I have to simplify things to help me and that has helped others.

Dream big by setting yourself seemingly impossible challenges. You then have to catch up with them.

I was fortunate enough, after many visits to many wonderful, weird people to come across Burt Rutan, who is a genius in the Mojave Desert. And SpaceShipOne was born and had three flights into space that won something called the X Prize. And from there, we're building SpaceShipTwo, which is ... a beautiful spaceship that is very, very, very nearly completed and will be ready from about next Christmas onwards to start taking people into space.

We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.

To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

I never set out to be a businessman