Whenever I invest, I invest in the person as well as the business.

In the 1980s when I was growing up in the Berkshire town of Maidenhead I was heavily into tennis. It was the era of Borg and McEnroe. I used to spend hours hitting balls against a wall, imagining I was beating them both.

Britain lacks that fundamental belief that anyone can make it. What we need is a British dream. Let's give young people the courage and ambition to go for it.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

We're having to spend a lot of time teaching our entrepreneurs how to teach and, I tell you, it isn't easy and that's why we should have an immense amount of respect for our teachers.

If you want to make your own decisions about where you work, what you do, what you earn and what you buy, then being able to make money is an important factor.

I really don't want to encourage young people to think that life is about money only. Life is about being able to give yourself choice.

I want enterprise and entrepreneurship embedded in the national curriculum and will continue to lobby government until it happens.

All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.

It was tennis that got me started in business. When I was 16 and about to embark on my A-levels, I set up a tennis academy and became one of the youngest qualified tennis coaches in the country. It did well; by the time I was 19 I was able to buy my first house.