I believe a great company, whether improving a sector or creating a new one, needs to have an excellent product or service at its core; needs strong management to execute the plan and a good brand to give it the edge over its competitors. Providing quality service, combined with value for money and in an innovative way ensures you offer real value - and finally to be responsible to society and the planet.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.

Not enough people realize the satisfaction you can get from really pushing yourself to the limits.

On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.

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