If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

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.

I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.

It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.