My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

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.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.

You could do with losing a little bit of weight.