If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

I'm not the sort of person who fears failure.

We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond.

Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our business small, and our management teams tight-knit. I feel that small, compact companies, are better run. That is partly because people feel more connected in small companies.

What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.