I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.

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.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

I just kind of dive in if I think I can create something that will make a difference and then try to get the numbers to stack up after the event. So most of the things I've done I would not have done if I'd have asked the accountants to look at them before.