It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

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 travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

The truth is... I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart... and I never really got it back.

The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.