Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

Success is my only option, failure's not.