To launch a business means successfully solving problems. Solving problems means listening.

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.

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.

The final condensation.

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

Government is connected to everything we do.

Every band sells t-shirts and plays certain auditoriums, but I'm sick of being like everyone else, because I'm not.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?