Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.

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.

When people warn me against doing something once my mind is made up, I grow increasingly determined to try it.

The best lessons are usually learned from failure. You musn't beat yourself up if you fail - just pick yourself up, learn as much as you can from the experience and get on with the next challenge...The brave may not live forever, but the cautious never live at all.