If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.

I have fun running all the Virgin businesses, so a setback is never a bad experience, just a learning curve

The time to go into a new business is when it’s badly run by others.

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.