As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Change can be beautiful

Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.

There was always a feeling for me that it would work. That's what keeps me going. You go in with a positive attitude and stay there, and that's a big part of what does make it work.

I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

Geraldo Rivera says Osama bin Laden is hiding out in Pakistan ... which means the most hated man in Afghanistan is now Geraldo Rivera.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.

Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon.