My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me. I have fun running all the Virgin businesses-so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve.

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 think that you're going to get so much more out of life if you just say yes at every opportunity.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

There are millions of people out there who would love to become astronauts, who'd love to go to space - they'd love to look back at this wonderful world from space. That will be the engine that will enable us then to develop spaceships to transport people around the world at tremendous speeds in an environmentally friendly way.

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.