Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space.

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.