There's only one growth strategy: work hard....

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.