To have created one of the most respected companies in the world. Not necessarily the biggest.

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.

We’re starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses

I am tired of days that are all the same.

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Every good that you do, every good that you say, every good thought you think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only until it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

Life is short, have dessert first.