Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives...or it's simply not worth doing.

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality.

There is no real difference between work and play - it’s all living.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!