When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records, ' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America, ' and for me, that was an achievement.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.

This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Well, ' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

I wanted proof, not promises.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

The words can not return.

That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.

To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.