In business, as in life, all that matters is that you do something positive.

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.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

He lasted about as long as the dessert tray at Rosie O'Donnell's house.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff.

It is a great feeling of course to have scored so many runs, but that is what I play cricket for: to score lots of runs.