Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Be authentic and organic. It can't be forced or it won't work. And most importantly, have fun.

I am prepared to try anything once.

The war on drugs has gone on for about forty-five, fifty years - and it's been a complete failure. If you had a business that was failing so badly, you would change course. And it's just incredible that governments continue along the same course.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.