I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.

With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

I'm sure if Brawn GP keep plying me with champagne and putting gorgeous Virgin girls either side of me, you never know!

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.