I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

Screw the competition - focus on good customer service.

Succeeding in business is all about making connections

Have passion for what you do; believe in yourself and your product and your customer; persevere; delegate; listen. Have fun. Today, I add: "Do good".

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.