I think it is important that we all strive to be the best that we can be, and when things go right, one accepts that there are many other factors that make each of us who we are. Some of those factors are about good luck or bad luck, and for example, the parents that you are born too and their economic status can really determine your future to a large extent. If you grow up in the right family, with a culture, for example, of reading, and parents who promote University and further education, then you are very likely to go and do those things, and so usually, but not guaranteed of course, get a little further ahead in life. If you don’t, you are at a considerable disadvantage – and it is one of the reasons that I never really had problems with reasonable taxes.

The bottom line is that nobody is self-made, you don’t just become who you are because you are “talented”, but it rather depends on a lot of factors, for example, in my case, getting lucky with parents and a mother who promoted education very heavily. I was reading newspapers at the age of 8, and I cannot help but feel that that focus that I got is entirely responsible for what I have managed to achieve in terms of my education and a little bit of business success. It is always important to understand that there are so many people out there who never got the chance. By the same token, there are people who sit and do jobs, who do get lots of chances, who blow every cent that they earn, who decide that indulging themselves is better than giving their children an education, and who ruin all the opportunities they get in life and for those, I have never really had any sympathy. The one thing they always have lots of are excuses.