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It is important in life to turn adversity to success

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Screw the competition - focus on good customer service.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but, you know, what we're - what I get my - what I'm proud about doing is creating companies which we're really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they'll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

I know enough to know that no man is an island.

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.