A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

From history books you should at best believe just the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even fabricated.

I know what my strengths are, and I know what my not strengths are.

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if it's a simple salad or Beef Wellington. A quality product stands alone and won't need any dressing up.

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.