In the '80's my gut feeling was that airlines were crap. I hated spending time on planes. I thought we could create the kind of airline I'd like. So we got a secondhand 747 and gave 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.

So many people focus on who they will be that they never get around to figuring out who they are.

Use your natural powers - of persistence, concentration, and insight - to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems, make art, and think deeply

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I'm honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has, because we know how to win.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

I never considered the move to Washington to be a permanent move.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

That's what 90 percent of the people talk about when they're first exposed to the fish.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Would I were dead, if God's good will were so, For what is in this world but grief and woe?