Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.

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.

There are some who deploy casual wisdom for the purpose of engaging.

It is the quality of time you are able to convert into the production of value. The quality of time you are able to concentrate and use to produce values is what determines your greatness.

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand!

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

The key to success, is to think things through and then follow through.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.