Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

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.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you. Just drifting over beautiful rivers in a balloon is perfect.

You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you're not going to sell any products.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.