I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

If you run a business, put on top your employees, then your consumers, and then your shareholders.

Can you afford to ignore China? It's like saying you can afford to ignore the internet. I don't think so.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.