Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.

One of the biggest things that I took from playing Kunta Kinte was where his strength came from in knowing where he was from.

My roots go back to West Africa, but my last name is Kirby, which is not an African name.

I was 22 when my mother gave me the original box set of 'Roots' and she said, 'I want you to watch this.' I watched the whole thing back to back in the span of 24 hours. It had a profound effect on me. It felt like my story.

There'll be creative business leaders but actually, when it comes down to it, they can't do anything unless they're part of a collective. Unless they've got that wealth creator, that engineer and that work person, that skilled person at the bench to fulfil that idea... they're nothing.

I always describe my career as something where nothing ever popped overnight.

We believe that the business system only is the key to success. It's no miracle, only day-to-day work in the appropriate way.

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.