However tight things are, you still need to have the big picture at the forefront of your mind.

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.

Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.