Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.