It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

Don’t let anyone say you can’t do it. To be successful, you need to fail. The more failures you have, the more successes you will have. People just don’t get that.

Don't let anyone say you can't do it.

It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?

We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.

Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too

Take time to define your own goals and stay focused on achieving them. You're your own competition.

We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.

It's fun to get back to acting.

The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.

The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.