I've had many challenges - every entrepreneur does - it's the nature of the beast.

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.

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

That's what makes a tragedy a tragedy. There's no rhyme or reason to it, only heartbreak. The only thing you can do when the ground stops shaking and the waters recede is try to save whoever's left.

If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Just because you are the loudest, doesn't make you right.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.