Luck is when determination meets opportunity

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.

God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do.

Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.

Never trash-talk yourself or others. Stay curious. Speak your truth.

Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

Every handsome man had a flaw. It was just her luck that in William's case that flaw was lunacy.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.