Succeeding in business is all about making connections

By working hard, by making the right moves, you can create your own luck, I think. But certainly luck plays a part.

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.

Screw it, let's do it - Just get on with it and do it

Build your own business team. Survival in business requires a synergy of skills.

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.

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer. I remember banging on James Baldwin's door to ask for an interview when he came to England. Then I got Jean-Paul Sartre's home phone number and asked him to contribute. If I'd been 30, he might have said no, but I was a 15-year-old with passion and he was charmed. Making money was always just a side product of having a good time and creating things nobody'd seen before.