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.

I have always been a huge believer in the inestimable value good mentoring can contribute to any nascent business

Business leaders take things far too seriously, and forget that most of the time people spend in their lives is at work, and it should be fun.

I think that being a business a leader that treads all over people to get to the top is actually not the way I think to become a successful business leader.

We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.

Coming up with the bucket list is the easy part, but ticking off the list is the challenge. I love a good challenge, which is why I strongly advise everyone to come up with a bucket list. It doesn't have to contain out of this world tasks. But once you have written down the list, screw it, just do it!

Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.