Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

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.

My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women.

Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

People who wait for the right moment end up waiting forever.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Lambs have little chance to follow the right path if the shepherds go astray.

I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.