Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just attach it to a new wagon.

Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

I was profoundly embarrassed by it [the White Australia Policy] and did all I could to change it.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault- they watched the foot come towards their face.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.

I look upon youth in admiration and admire them for their curiosity about the world, their shape shifting, their ideas about the future.

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.