I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

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.

If you wish to meet and speak with god, you must first try to tame a wild tiger with a feather and a stick.

I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear.

There is a video out now on how to please men. Here's tip number 1: Just show up!

The full man does not understand the wants of the hungry