I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

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.

What you're saying, " I clarify through clenched teeth, "is that call boys don't make it far in government.

Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness.

Walking the streets with camera in hand is akin to being on a treasure hunt as a child.

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.

A wise one determines his own fate.

We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream.

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.