Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.

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.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

...it seemed appropriate that I should develop some kind of illness. This is a good idea when you are at a loose end because everything, up to and including herpes, is better than being bored.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

Stubborness is believing in yourself when nobody else does.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry