I don't like the anonymity of the banking process - people now don't have a bank manager they ever meet.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

I adore clothes - they're my weakest link! My mother was the same, and she taught me always to look polished.

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.