First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

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.

Power of prayer, serenity for the soul.

Thinking there had to be a better way was a brilliant stroke of serendipity!

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.

I don't want to be mean. I try not to be.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.