Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It really seems to be helping.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.