The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

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.

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

What like a bullet can undeceive!

Experts say that children are not born criminals, nor pampered parasites. They are made that way by the environment in which they live.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

While all the future, for thy purer soul, With "sober certainties" of love is blest.