Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

We will be producing supersonic planes which will go far, far faster than Concordes. New York to Tokyo could be less than an hour. You could be traveling at 19,000 miles an hour orbitally.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

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

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.