Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

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.

Selfishness is not a virtue. Altruism is not a moral weakness. Taxation is the price we pay for civilization.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.

Love always finds its way, but if you love someone just say...

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

Starships are all work and no fun.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

At the beginning and the middle and the end of all things, there is only the perfection of enlightenment that is nirvana.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

Some people like to look at pictures of themselves before they lost weight. I don't particularly care for that. Whenever I was overweight, it was a very sad time in my life.

You know when people smile too much? It's painful. I find it really painful. Happy is not very reliable. I'm trying to live like, um, with a fierce calm.