Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

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.

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering—God indwells us—and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

If forensic analysts confiscated your calendar and e-mail records and Web browsing history for the past six months, what would they conclude are your core priorities?

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind.

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.

Louie brought his new girlfriend over, and the nicest thing I can say about her is all her tattoos are spelled correctly.

What we all like in life, I think, is the challenge of making something... that is not easy to do.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.