Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

I believe in myself. I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love.

One thing is certain in business, you and everyone around you will make mistakes.

There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have

I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.