I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

Perhaps my early problems with dyslexia made me more intuitive: when someone sends me a written proposal, rather than dwelling on detailed facts and figures I find that my imagination grasps and expands on what I read.

Learn to use your brain power. Critical thinking is the key to creative problem solving in business.

Luck is when determination meets opportunity

It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.