If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.