Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

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.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

Everybody says we hated the Yankees. We didn't hate the Yankees. We just hated the way they beat us.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.