Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

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.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Acting is one of the two things that give me the most joy. The other thing is travelling. Nothing else matters to me.

Once you see the good in someone, it's hard not to notice the good in everyone.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

We just have to come in every morning and somehow, launch the editor.

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they don't trust the doctors, they don't trust the hospitals and that kind of stuff. Well, if you go to the hospital, you've got to trust somebody.

Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.