Businessman

I do like a healthy dose of adrenalin, but my character is more rounded. I am not timid; I like excitement.

I was always interested in ladies' fashion.

I considered several names, but Titania, a character from Shakespeare's 'Midsummer Night's Dream', was best able to portray the image I wanted for what is a fantastically elegant and sexy yacht.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it.

I couldn't even contemplate anyone even making a film about my life!

People are much more important than superficial environments.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

My objective is to leave my family adequately catered for, but I want my children to make their own way. I want them to have pride in their own achievements.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

I'd much rather leave ?2bn to charity, or ?3bn or ?4bn, than ?1bn. That is my motivation to carry on working as hard as I do.

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.

I had challenges to overcome as a child, and that was good.

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I can safely say that there are dozens of places on 'Titania' to watch a film with friends. I would estimate there's something like 50 televisions on board, some of which are very big-screen, some of which drop out of ceilings on the outdoor decks.