There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't understand how one gets new laws through.

I got on a high believing everything I would produce was going to sell at the rate I wanted.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.