 And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. |
| My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost. |
| I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going. |
| Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank. |
| The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. |
| A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Topics: Business |
| We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. |
| Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath. |
| Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Topics: Business |
| We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep. |
| I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life. |
| And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. |
| Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. |
| You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. |
| I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. |
| With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights. |
| The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went. |
