There is no greater thing you could do in your life and your work, than following your passions- in a way that serves the world and you. - Richard Branson

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

These values do not come cheap. These values must be paid for.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.