Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

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.

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is a choice.

This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

Feeling is the voice of the body; reasoning is the voice of the mind; conscience is the voice of the spirit.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.