Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

In the beginning it was just about the business - now it's about the brand.

Being an entrepreneur simply means being someone who wants to make a difference to other people's lives.

We have the enormous opportunity in our hands to make a positive difference for business, people, and the planet.

We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.