Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.

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.

To find true freedom, relinquish all of your attachments.

We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son, " attributed to George Orwell

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

The more you love your children, the more care you should take to neglect them occasionally. The web of affection can be drawn too tight.

My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient to depart.

In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

It's a different thing when you play on a team that has to win, that doesn't consider it a good year unless you win the championship

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.