We’re going where no one has gone before. There’s no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting. 828
Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn’t you have fun at work? 2.35K
I’m inquisitive and I love new challenge. and if I feel that we can do it better than it’s been done by other people, we’ll have a go. 2.3K
I think the most important thing is that in the last seven days we’ve just had the greatest adventure of our lifetimes. 1.4K
Customer shouldn’t just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service – it should be a fun place to be. 1.89K
Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if your start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line. 1.81K
So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if see -you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it was’t in -21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on. 828
I’m lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more. 902
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around. 1.31K
You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. 750
And obviously, from our own personal point of view, The principal challenge is a person challenge. 1.97K
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are talking the mickey out of the consumer. 2.58K
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not tell the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other -and we still are. 748
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible message to the people who work for them. I would be so much so much better if that money was spent in Africa -and it’s about getting a balance. 1.15K
Fortunately we’re not a public company -we’re private group of companies, and I can do what I want. 854
