Remain focused on fulfilling your business mission. Never allow adversity divert your attention and efforts.

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.

A partner to share the ups and downs with. Honor and strength, and knowing you're stronger together than apart

The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.