When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails; I let it go off the rails.

When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I went round the night my mother was lying in the kitchen, and I organised everything, from the undertaker to the funeral... I looked after everybody, I sorted it all out and I've done so ever since.

I was the chief executive once, I’ve been there. My recommendation to anybody is don’t go backwards.

We’ve got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

It’s P for Progress not R for Recovery.

I don’t believe in retirement.

I’d go mad if I didn’t have things to make me laugh.

Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company’s value.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they’ve ever been at any time in our history, we’ve also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we’ve ever had, and we’ve potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

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