I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.

There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have