I came into business to make money, I make no apology for that. I wanted to make a lot of money but after the first £50million or £100million, it became less about making money and more about having fun.

The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.