If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Remember it's OK to be yourself.

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well

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.

You don't have to be one of the Elders. You don't have to be well known. You just have to be determined to care about people. That's all it takes.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.