“A good leader leads from the front. Don’t get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.”

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

If family or friends are unwell or ill – it’s perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

You can’t run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever – but the cautious do not live at all!

Brave people don’t live forever, but cautious people don’t live at all.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people’s hopes, frustrations, and points of view.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’

There are no quick wins in business – it takes years to become an overnight success.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third – ultimately that’s in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

When placed in command, take charge.

The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.

If you are a leader, a fellow who other fellows look to, you have to keep going.

As a leader you do not stop and calculate your losses during combat.

We all experienced sleep deprivation at times – hat is the nature of stress but a physically exhausted leader routinely makes poor decisions in times of crisis.

European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

A leader can never be happy until his people are happy.