The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

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.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.

In Africa, villagers look up to elders; they are the moral voice of their community.

Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised.