My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.