I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.

I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality...

Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.

We believe responsible business can be profitable business