For me, I may have titles like CEO, director or vice chairman but the best title for me is 'working mother.'

My kids are my life. Sitting on the sidelines watching my son play rugby, helping them with their homework or getting them ready for their exams - I can't think of anything else I'd rather do.

The one thing I wanted was independence. And I realised to have that independence, you needed financial independence.

Any board executive can forget just how many people helped them get where they are. Those women who have got to the top need actively to ensure there is a pipeline of younger women, whether by networking or mentoring, who in turn are encouraging those below them.

The world is divided into three types of people in business: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

My greatest mistake? I once took a three-day maternity leave. I had my daughter on a Wednesday, and then went back to the office on the Monday to sack a manager.

The characteristics of successful business people, whether they are male or female, are very similar. It's about determination, it's about enthusiasm, it's about strategy, it's about communication, it's about integrity. And sometimes men and women display those differently but fundamentally they are the same qualities.

By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

You don't really do much in life unless you take risks, push yourself and find your passion.

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.

The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.

If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.

Sports can't be run by governments.

The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

Universities are not places where police can come and arrest people. Let the children have a discourse as they want to. They will learn as they move on in life. But to target individuals and institutions is dangerous.

The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.

Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.

I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.

Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.