However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Over the years I have found one of my best strengths is my ability to recognise talent and trust them.

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

Exploration is a wonderful way to open our eyes to the world, & to truly see that impossible is just a word.