Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hated the experience of flying on other people's airlines. And I thought, you know, I could try to create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on. And people liked it.

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

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.