Purpose is not an add-on, it’s not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

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.

Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

I wake in the night. Or sometimes I don't wake in the night. It hardly seems to make a difference.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.

Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine.