We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It’s an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what’s going on.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Nobody’s indispensable.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

It’s nice when little teams win.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it’s digging deep, it’s doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

There are definitely designers that I love, people I love to work with. And who they are as people matters. Are they good people? Do they treat their staff well? Do they treat my staff well? Are they young? Can I give them a boost? But when all of that is equal… is it cute?

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.