Like a Virgin

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

As with everything else in my life, I am grateful to a lot of people for the inspiration behind, and the creation of, Like a Virgin. To name but a few…

Thanks must go to Nick Fox at Virgin Management for constantly urging me to ‘write it down’ and then sometimes taking dictation from all over the world as I took him up on the advice; and to Gloria Anderson and Patti Sonntag at the New York Times for commissioning and then syndicating some of my scribblings to more than fifty countries.

Then there’s David Tait, who built Virgin Atlantic in the USA from day one and has spent the best part of thirty years correcting my English. David was a great support in helping me order my thoughts and making these outpourings readable.

Not least, my thanks go out to two more important groups. All the readers of the various publications around the world and others who have texted, blogged or emailed (one even came in on a postcard) all nature of thought-provoking comments, opinions and questions, many of which I have attempted to respond to in these pages.

And, secondly, to all the wonderful employees past and present of the Virgin Group who have helped me create our unusual family of companies and have helped me fill this book with great stories and lessons.

I hope it spurs on a new generation of entrepreneurs.

Thank you one and all.