If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

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.

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.