Having a good network can be invaluable. It opens doors for you and allows you to enter into opportunities that are beneficial to your business.

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up

Our generation has inherited an incredibly beautiful world from our parents and they from their parents. It is in our hands whether our children and their children inherit the same world. We must not be the generation responsible for irreversibly damaging the environment.

Your brand or your name is simply your reputation, you have to fight in life to protect that as it means everything. Nothing is more important.

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.

Throughout my business life I have always tried to keep on top of costs and protect the downside risk as much possible. The Virgin Group has survived only because we have always kept tight control of our cash. But, likewise, I also know that sometimes it is essential to break these rules and spend lavishly.

We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensations of weightlessness and space flight.